Disproportionate responses?

[mediaville]

I have spent some time wondering about how and why some people react to erotica on the Internet. Specifically us - people who read fic, appreciate art, watch vids, etc that are shippy or sexual or romantic in nature. Here is what I have discovered about myself:

Comments

[hector_rashbaum]

yeah I mostly stick to those four, although 4. i reserve entirely for people acting like assholes - i have enough sketchy/weird/gross fic kinks that i try not to judge people for what they like to read

[mediaville]

Oh! I hope that was clear: I don't judge people for kinks I don't share with them. That falls into my bucket #3. #4 is actually really rare for me, and I reserve it for people who won't warn for kinks that I stumble upon in their fic. To me, that's assholish.

[hector_rashbaum]

Oh no I didn't think you were saying that at all, I was just clarifying my own view.

[tinahead2003]

Yeah I think those four cover it. The only time I really want to harm people is when people who actually speak English butcher it ridiculously. It also makes me want to hurt their teachers and parents for some reason for raising children who don't know that putty isn't spelled puddy, or that definitely isn't spelled difiantly or diffidently.

[cherrymmm]

I have fallen into the first three categories regularly. The fourth not so much. I usually avoid all things disturbing to me and back out of them if I am taken by surprise.

I definitely have stepped out of my comfort zone for an author that I enjoy consistently and have been pleasantly surprised most often in those instances.

[fromcainwthlove]

sometimes stories frustrate me.

i suppose this would fall under #4, but more than occasionally i hate something and find myself deeply compelled to keep reading it because i hate it so much. this usually leads to either hating it so much it's hilarious, hating it so much i have to find someone to rant at about how bad it is (usually some poor, unsuspecting friend who has no idea wtf i'm ranting about), or hating it so much i want to vomit up my insides.

i wouldn't say i've ever hated a fic so much i wanted to *hurt* someone, but i have vaguely hoped that some tragic accident crushed their hands and made it impossible for them to type.

sometimes certain prompts in kink memes--almost never the fics themselves, mostly just the prompts and the replies to fics--make me wish that someone in that poster's life would shake them until their brain rattles back into the land of the sane and non-terrifying. this feeling is usually in response to extreme underage stuff and accompanied by the aforementioned desire to vomit up my insides.

[redteekal]

I've occasionally come across fic that I've really liked for much of the word count but the ending just makes me feel cheated somehow. It was kind of like "YES!..yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!!!...Ye..WAIT. Whatnow? HUH? How can this be?" *scrolling and clicking madly to find the rest of the fic or the REAL ending* and I will feel like I've been let down or ripped off somehow. And it's not that I am surprised by the ending or it turned out a way I hadn't expected. I love the hell out of those fics when well written. It's a distinct impression that either A: The writer really had no clue about how to end this story or B: They lost interest and needed to get it done by a certain deadline so they rushed the hell out of it. I can't say I didn't like that story because I did...I just couldn't stand the last ten paragraphs (much like the last ten seconds of the Spn S6 finale sadly).