random rant

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You know what really gets my goat?

I write a fic or snippet or drabble or whatever, and it's serious or dramatic and possibly has people dying... and people review and tell me it's cute and they loved the fluffy dialogue.

I absolutely hate that. It leaves me staring at the fic filled with pain/drama/character death/angst wondering "Um... did the definition of cute change?" or "Is this what fluffy is now? What, did I not I kill enough main characters to be worthy of something other than 'cute' ? "

Anyway, that bugs me. If you liked it, tell me you liked it. If you hated it, tell me you hated it. If I fill it with hearts and flowers and Warm And Fuzzy Feelings, you can say "That was cute OMG! write more!".

If it's an angsty vignette filled with mature and serious themes and character death and horror I do not want a response that says "That was so cute OMG!"

It really bothers me because I have to wonder what you found cute about it, because if it was fluffy obviously I was doing something terribly, terribly wrong.

I know this seems a very strange complaint, but I've noticed it a lot this last year and its starting to bug me. If I want to write something cute I'll write something cute. Most of the stuff I write is not cute. Do I have to turn into Stephen fucking King with the characters to get something other than "cute"? Don't make me go all Stephen King on your ass. Cause I will. I'll kill Ed and Alphonse mid-fic faster than you can say "don quixote". And it won't be cute.

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Comments

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

It may have to do with limited functional vocabulary on their part... because I can read serious fic and still find the dialogue – not cute – I might say "charming." If the dialogue has a lot of clever banter, or the voices are particularly good, it makes me smile even when the tone of the fic overall isn't light-hearted. So that may be what they're trying to say.

Or they might be airheads who are missing the point of the piece entirely, that's also possible.