This is me working through my shit.

[mistressjinx]

I needed an outlet to work through my anonymous hate shit. So I made a thing.
[10:51] but really only [07:08]

MP3 | M4B

Comments

[majoline]

*sends all the love and support for you* ♥♥♥

Oh holy crap, those are actual comments? MAY THEY ALL STEP ON LEGOS FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. >:|||||||||||

SO TRUE. UGH people need to comment on podfics more, because it is so hard to want to work when you don't even get kudos, let alone you get crap like this piled on them.

ILU and you are so amazing!

Take heart? :( I don't even get kudos most of the time! I don't even understand people sometimes. I get enough downloads to run out of bandwidth, but not even a button press? SO I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND.

Also, great song choice. Lily Allen is perfect :)

[akamine_chan]

I so wish you created podfic in a my fandoms, because I would so listen to you. You have a great voice, wonderfully expressive, and fuck anyone who says different.

I really have such a hard time how people can be so thoughtless and assholeish. And that weird sense of entitlement that a lot of fans seem to have about podfic - how it's for their pleasure, and you need to conform to their likes and dislikes. Grr.

*pets you* I'm sorry that people have left nasty comments on your works.

ETA: do you mind if I rec this?

[chemm80]

Jesus Christ. On second thought, no... pretty sure he wouldn't appreciate this.

I sincerely hope that most of these are the same person, because I would hate to think there are very many more of them out there. The arrogant, ignorant gall of it! Because reading style is completely under a person's control, as are her voice, inflection and accent. And goodness knows if that's true, then performance choices such as acting, and the voices one gives the characters are incredibly easy to fix. And by "fix" I mean, "Do them the way Anonymous likes to hear them."

This is doing fandom wrong if I ever saw it. The ONLY thing to do with fanworks that you don't care for is to click away. I don't mind listeners calling attention to mistakes in the recording—in fact I encourage it—and for sure I've often thought, "This story could have used a beta reader. Or two." but you don't criticize people for something they can't help.

Really, fandom? Really?

*sighs* I hope this post was helpful for you in venting some of the hurt, my dear. It's easy to say, "Pay no attention to these idiots." but much harder to do. For example, I read a comment on one of the anon memes—I went looking for it, so that's on me—that said something like, "I hate to say it because she's such a nice woman, but chemm80 reads like a robot." Even that—nowhere near as ugly as this— was something I couldn't quite shake off, and I think of it every time I read, and I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in the neighborhood of two years ago. People need to think before they speak type. On the other hand, this person had some idea of what they were doing, or they wouldn't have commented anon. Maybe someone will listen to this post and realize that their comments really aren't helpful at all. If they want to actually help, here's a link to the proper way to comment on podfic; maybe you can direct any future idiots there.

[heard_the_owl]

YOU ARE FUCKING AMAZING AND I LOVE YOU, AND WHY MUST PEOPLE SUCK??? Seriously, about half the podfic on my iPod right now are by you, but pretty soon, that numbers gonna go up because YOU HAVE SO MANY MORE I NEED TO DOWNLOAD, WHY DO I NOT HAVE THESE OMG FSDKSL;A *NEEDS TO FRIEND*

I've also noticed something after 15 yrs in fandom, and that's the weird phenomena where only people who are well know and recognized by fandom get the anon hate. It's fucked up, sure, but there are probably THOUSANDS of listeners who love your work and just fail to comment because they are just like me and lazy pieces of shit who always fucking forget omg I'M SORRY!!! /0\

So, um. I'll totes kick their ass for you because NO. And I fight mean.
♥

[anatsuno]

ilu, & you're awesome. *wraps in hugs* ♥

[colls]

Hi. I wandered over here from podfic_love.

wow.

Why are people such passive aggressive assholes? I'm so glad I'm not prolific enough of a podficcer for anyone to bother "critiquing" me like that because I think I'd just stop.
:(

BTW, your song choice in this is fabulous.
AND I LIKE YOUR READING VOICE.
*goes to see what fandoms you've recorded in*

[fire_juggler]

I found this from podfic_love, and I'm so glad I did! This is amazing, and such a great way to work through the crap that sometimes comes our way. The next time I get a shitty comment, I'm coming straight here to remind myself that they are un-remarkable and not worth my tears.

FWIW, I LOVE listening to your podfics. I have half a dozen on them on my iPod at any given time, often in fandoms I've never experienced *cough*Spartacus*cough*, but I don't care because I love the way you interpret characters. You bring them to life for me even when I don't know them. ♥

[yue_ix]

UGH. WHY, ASSWIPES, WHY. I remember seeing some of these on your AO3/tumblr and clawing at the screen in a desperate try to remove them from the internet out of sheer hate. Wtf is wrong with some people that they can't backbutton in silence (beside obviously having bad tastes, but they can't help that I guess).

This is a great, positive way to work through this shit, and I'm really happy you've been able to! I loove this song, ever since I found it in the fanmix How I Really Don't Give A Fuck About You Any More, And I'm Moving On, which had several gems. All fun things to hum when people are being stupid. ;)

As you probably suspect by now, I find your works display great quality, skills, body, emotions, resourcefulness and imagination. You've both put me to sleep and kept me awake many, many nights already. You've made me hide my heating face in the subway, you've made me hum contently in the morning. I love your voice so much that I project it now: the other day your voice in my head has been reading a Derek/Laura fic that you didn't even perform.

<3

[chestnut_pod]

I'm so sorry about this! You don't know me at all, but I am an avid listener, and a podficcer myself, and I am absolutely outraged on your behalf! The nerve here is astounding, honestly, and I can't believe these people think you're somehow compelled to fit all their little reader ticky-boxes because they want it. >:|

You keep doing you, yeah? I think you're great, and this podfic is great.

[teas_me]

I was linked to this from fire_juggler after receiving my own terribly rude comment on a podfic I've done. I can't believe those were real! People can be so incredibly hurtful. I don't mind if they're pointing out an actual error or something like that in the recording, but to say things about how you sound in your reading. RUDE! Don't say anything at all then, and click away. No one is forcing you to listen/read/view.

*hugs you* Thanks so very much for sharing :)