Comments that leave you shaking your head

[Senor_Smut]

Something tells me you still had Mr Anonymous commenting on later chapters anyway. He might've sounded a bit different, or used different phrasing, but it was clearly him!

It's entirely possible. As I just posted in another thread, rageahol is a hell of a drug.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I just got this on my latest story 'A Little Halloween Fun' :

by Anonymous user on 8 minutes ago

Im sorry but imho if you are not married by the time you are thirty you have serious character probelms you are either and arrogant asshole and self centerd or have mental issues .

Strange.

I'm sure all the people who are marrying in their thirties these days don't think of themselves as assholes or centered people with mental issues, just because they've waited to meet the right person, or they've been focusing on their careers.

 

[Actingup]

I just got this on my latest story 'A Little Halloween Fun' :

by Anonymous user on 8 minutes ago

Im sorry but imho if you are not married by the time you are thirty you have serious character probelms you are either and arrogant asshole and self centerd or have mental issues .

Strange.

I'm sure all the people who are marrying in their thirties these days don't think of themselves as assholes or centered people with mental issues, just because they've waited to meet the right person, or they've been working on their careers.

Possibly you could ask them what they would say if they were not being so humble with their opinion?

 

[pink_silk_glove]

by Anonymous user on 8 minutes ago

Im sorry but imho if you are not married by the time you are thirty you have serious character probelms you are either and arrogant asshole and self centerd or have mental issues .

Strange.

Sounds like anonymous has serious character problems, is an arrogant asshole and self-centered or has mental issues. With these four marks against, I would not consider marrying him, before age thirty or after.

 

[AlexFourways]

No totally shaking my head but puzzled frown...
by LannaLace on 3 hours ago
Very well written! A little long on detail in spots...but otherwise well done!
The-Devil-Does-Care About Attitude
I suppose I have a visual imagination so try to provide a cinematic description of the action.
Is some stories - the set up is good, but the description of the sex is either so brief "they coupled and she quickly orgasmed causing he to come". Or inconsistent "she sat on his lap, his cock rubbing her ass as her breasts were held against his chest". My inbult cinema just fused!
YMMV

 

[Erozetta]

Dream a Little Dream of Me

Nothing wrong with this take and I found it interesting. I was admittedly misleading by using a "second person narration" tag. (in my defense, I didn't mean 2nd person pov, I just wasn't sure how to denote the narrator was talking directly to another person for the entire story, and that tag clearly wasn't the way. I realized almost immediately after it went up that it was a mistake and read as "2nd person" narration, but wasn't worth sending an edit in for it.) Anyhow, the story is in 1st person past leading into present (recalling the dream-past, phone call between the two characters- present), which fucked me up all kinds of ways. Regardless, it was an experiment I won't be repeating 'cause I hated it.

You are a very talented writer and I can’t wait to read more of your stuff.
But now that you’ve experimented with 2nd person, please leave it behind.
I’ve taught writing for my entire career: Comp (of course), Creative Writing: Prose Fiction and Playwriting.
In the early 2000’s I discovered a study on how certain styles of writing emotionally affected a reader at a visceral level. It was a scientific study: looking at BP, heart rate, eye movement, respiration, etc. as they tested readers.
Some of the findings were genre specific, but also focused in on narrative methods, particularly tense and POV. In a nutshell: readers found present tense more uncomfortable to read than past. Reader comfort was fairly even between 1st and 3rd person POV, but 2nd person POV made the vast majority of readers uncomfortable at a visceral level.
I’d present this study to my students and say, “You are free to create however your muse moves you, but why would you choose a POV that subconsciously makes your reader uncomfortable?”
Unfortunately, that study was left in my files when I retired, so I can’t share it with you.
Just thought I’d share.

 

[StillStunned]

Quoted from @Erozetta's post above:

but 2nd person POV made the vast majority of readers uncomfortable at a visceral level.
I’d present this study to my students and say, “You are free to create however your muse moves you, but why would you choose a POV that subconsciously makes your reader uncomfortable?”

Because sometimes uncomfortable is what you want your writing to achieve? Not to make any pretentious statements about what we do here being "art", but don't we all hope to evoke some emotion in our readers? And sometimes that emotion is discomfort.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

Comment by Anonymous on my Interracial Love story titled Book Club.

"Another boring cliched BWWM story. Brings nothing new to the table and is simply a rehashing of tropes we see all the time on this site. Not what this site needs. Please pack your pens and get out of the Top Writer library."

I'm not sure how they think I control the fact that it's on the Top Rated list. By the way, it's currently #45 on the Top Rated submitted in the last 12 months list. Granted, when mid-January comes and it rolls onto the "All Time" list with a score of 4.74, it will drop out of the Top 250, so Anonymous will get their wish.

So here's a flying finger to Anonymous, the readers disagree with you. My theory is that he is/was married to a Black nurse, just like my MFC, and she cheated on him with a White guy.

 

[Fatdog25]

Quoted from @Erozetta's post above:

Because sometimes uncomfortable is what you want your writing to achieve? Not to make any pretentious statements about what we do here being "art", but don't we all hope to evoke some emotion in our readers? And sometimes that emotion is discomfort.

And it worked with your story. I'm still thinking about that...

 

[pink_silk_glove]

So here's a flying finger to Anonymous

I would never give one of my readers the finger, especially one who actually read to the end and left feedback.

You post a story.

100000 see it in the list
10000 click on it
1000 read to the end
100 bother to vote
10 actually comment

How wonderful it is that someone actually made it all the way to the bottom of that filter. It's almost a miracle and I consider myself grateful. That's the last person that I'm going to flip off no matter what nasty shit that they write about me or my story.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Quoted from @Erozetta's post above:

Because sometimes uncomfortable is what you want your writing to achieve? Not to make any pretentious statements about what we do here being "art", but don't we all hope to evoke some emotion in our readers? And sometimes that emotion is discomfort.

Indeed, that's the entire erotic horror category. Horror and suspense, the entire point is to make you squirm in your seat, maybe creep you out.

 

[AlexFourways]

Romancing The Dance - posting this here and on '... make your day' 1.1k views in a day and already 1 comment - I don't get many - hence making my day, but here the thing is that's what powerful people do to shy people.
by Anonymous user on 12 hours ago
What a secretive manipulative bunch of assholes they were. Using her from the start.

Well, I suppose they were, but they were manipulating him as well! (They being the owners of the Dance School)

 

[TheLobster]

Not exactly a comment but it definitely does leave me scratching my head:



Someone either really loves this story or doesn't know what the button is for.

 

[AlexFourways]

Not exactly a comment but it definitely does leave me scratching my head:

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Someone either really loves this story or doesn't know what the button is for.

I've had doubles before and just assumed the site hadn't reacted immediately so had double clicked. But 4x is a lot of impatience or high latency.

 

[yowser]

Not exactly a comment but it definitely does leave me scratching my head:

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Someone either really loves this story or doesn't know what the button is for.

I'm not going to go to the trouble to find out, but it is more than possible your story was added to multiple lists this person has assembled. So I'll wager not an error.

 

[AlexFourways]

I'm not going to go to the trouble to find out, but it is more than possible your story was added to multiple lists this person has assembled. So I'll wager not an error.

As I have only ever added 3 favourites, tending to follow a reader, and only have the default lists, I would never have thought of that. I did have one reader add a dozen or more stories to favourites in a few minutes. I DM'd asking why and they said it was 'for reading later'.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

As I have only ever added 3 favourites, tending to follow a reader, and only have the default lists, I would never have thought of that. I did have one reader add a dozen or more stories to favourites in a few minutes. I DM'd asking why and they said it was 'for reading later'.

And "Read later" is a list, so ....

-Annie

 

[TheLobster]

I'm not going to go to the trouble to find out, but it is more than possible your story was added to multiple lists this person has assembled. So I'll wager not an error.

Perhaps. I went in and looked, and yes the story is on that person's favorites. They also have three lists, but they are all thousands of entries which seem to be sorted earliest-first so I couldn't really scan them.

But that would corroborate the favorite + 3 lists theory, right? Well, except the lists are called:

• 3 Stars
• Lons List
• Lons BEST List

In other words, I made it both to favorites, a BEST list, and a "3 Stars" list!...

...and I'm even more confused than before.

 

[RetroFan]

It's odd how upset some readers get upset by the 'mundane or magical' trope which I have used in a number of my stories. The mundane or magical trope features events that might be supernatural, or could be interpreted as having a rational, Earth-bound explanation firmly grounded in reality and it is up to the reader/viewer to decide for themselves.

For example in my story 'Learning to Love Louise' a character named Jane is dead all along, revealed in a mid-plot twist. But whether Jane is a ghost that only her former fiancee can see, or whether he imagines her in his subconscious the way a child would have an imaginary friend is left ambiguous. The story was generally positively reviewed, but there were complaints about the ambiguity and of possibly supernatural themes being in a romance story. It was a similar case with my story 'The Lost Hours With Annabelle' with which I won the 2022 April Fools contest. Initially the feedback and comments but were positive, but after the contest was decided the feedback and scores declined and some were readers were aggrieved as to the fact that what really happened was never resolved.

 

[lc69hunter]

Not myself personally but I've seen a few comments on certain stories I've read where there's a comment, almost always anonymous, where they will summarize a theoretical second part of a story that is just so embellished; Like how they'd write the story if it were up to them.

I get it. There are some stories that I've read that I wish the outcome were different; It's one of the reasons why I decided to start writing my own material after all. However I just find things like that just super bizarre.

I see that far too often, where a commenter who has never written a story, will write his alternative ending to the story, including dire consequences. Today I mocked one and he went off on me. I laughed an told him that in AH, we laughed at little boys like him. He is still frothing at the mouth

 

[26thNC]

I see that far too often, where a commenter who has never written a story, will write his alternative ending to the story, including dire consequences. Today I mocked one and he went off on me. I laughed a told him that in AH, we laughed at little boys like him. He is still frothing at the mouth

I don’t think he’s frothing at the mouth Ic69hunter. You and your little boys comments have become a joke among LW normal readers. Your “I’m a bisexual cuck at age 90” act is as laughable as your constant fawning praise of ridiculously bad cuck stories. No one is required to have posted a story in order to comment and make suggestions.

 

[Actingup]

Perhaps. I went in and looked, and yes the story is on that person's favorites. They also have three lists, but they are all thousands of entries which seem to be sorted earliest-first so I couldn't really scan them.

But that would corroborate the favorite + 3 lists theory, right? Well, except the lists are called:

• 3 Stars
• Lons List
• Lons BEST List

In other words, I made it both to favorites, a BEST list, and a "3 Stars" list!...

...and I'm even more confused than before

Those three lists look to be very similar. The only way you're going to decode that system is if you write to him asking about it, I reckon. That word 'retired' in his biography does help explain why he has the time to have multiple lists though...

 

[Erozetta]

Scratching my head more than shaking it:

You are Russian. Egozetta is a derivative of Egoza, Егоза.

Simply put... Huh?

 

[Plathfan]

Scratching my head more than shaking it:



Simply put... Huh?

The word "егоза" means "fidget."

In Cyrillic, the letter "г" is pronounced like "g."

 

[THBGato]

Just got this:

"Although not a sci-fi fan (but I agree about the Bone Clocks), I gave it five."

Which is really weirding me out. I really like David Mitchell's "Bone Clocks" but I'm fairly certain I haven't referenced it anywhere in any of my stories, and certainly not in On a Wing and a Prayer where the comment was left. Yet the way they've phrased it makes it sound like we've discussed it... does this person know me?? Given their username it's not beyond the realms of possibility!