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Part 2 of The AO3 comments section presents...how not to use the AO3 comments section!
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Mediocre!

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Fannish spaces have an established etiquette. Here, we deconstruct comments and behavior that break the social contract of fannish etiquette and demonstrate how to respond to lazy and uninspired ad hominem attacks.

Further examples have been graciously provided in the comments section by the fannish community. Thanks, comrades!

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For Newbie1221

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After reading her fics

 

Part 78 of an ongoing series? Gurl (gender neutral), yikes! Don't like, don't read, and definitely don't leave nasty comments with your actual AO3 handle in public on the internet to be used as a warning to others in perpetuity. Go talk to your therapist or another trusted adult about your inability to regulate your own internet experience. Deliberately engaging with online content that makes you angry is a form of self-harm!

I can confirm she

JK Rowling???!

is a bonified 

Did you mean ossified? Or bona fide, perhaps?

schizophrenic

Schizophrenia is a distinct diagnosis from Dissociative Identity Disorder, and neither are my actual mental health or developmental disability diagnoses which I worked for years as an adult to get due to being assigned female at birth, being socialized female, having good grades in school, and the long-standing medical misinformation and perception of ADHD and autism as strictly “male” diagnoses. Bioessentialism causes real world harm on the individual and societal levels, sweaty.

She 

JKR???!

embodies everything that's wrong with Gen Z

You think I'm Gen Z–? 💕Aw, sweaty, you shouldn’t have💕 but my naturally youthful appearance is due to a genetic condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome!

from her obsession with viewing Star Wars through the lens of modern politics

George Lucas in 1977: so we’re dressing the baddies as Nazis and calling them Stormtroopers and we're putting Leia in Hopi buns and Han in charro pants to make sure the allegory to US and European fascism, colonialism, and imperialism is obvious to the viewer

online Star Wars "fan" in 2026: stop trying to make Star Wars political!

to blaming everything wrong in history on the West while excusing the actions of other ethnic groups as "justified".

“When white people fight their oppressors we're freedom fighters, but when other peoples under white colonialism fight us that's just sparkling terrorism."

…Ah. I see George W. Bush and ghosts of Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney have all entered the chat. While you’re here you should know the WMDs were always coming from inside the house and each of you will go down in history rightfully despised as the war criminals you are, rest in piss.

Personally, I rank her third place in "Western Communism 101".

“In my opinion, this letter to the editor expresses excellently the temper and point of view of the young Communists, or of rank-and-file workers who are only just beginning to accept communism. This temper is highly gratifying and valuable; we must learn to appreciate and support it for, in its absence, it would be hopeless to expect the victory of the proletarian revolution in Great Britain, or in any other country for that matter. People who can give expression to this temper of the masses, and are able to evoke such a temper (which is very often dormant, unconscious and latent) among the masses, should be appreciated and given every assistance. At the same time, we must tell them openly and frankly that a state of mind is by itself insufficient for leadership of the masses in a great revolutionary struggle, and that the cause of the revolution may well be harmed by certain errors that people who are most devoted to the cause of the revolution are about to commit, or are committing.”

–Vladimir Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder, 1920.

Daddy Vladdy himself gives you a F in applied praxis, sweaty :(

My entire fannish history at your fingertips and you thought you could insult me by repeatedly and deliberately misgendering me? Where is the pizzazz? The panache? The vitriolic personal attacks calling me problematic for my ships? Did you graduate suma cum laude from the Eedy Karn school of low effort negging? Luke Skywalker did NOT wear those Chanel boots and kiss his own sister for this mediocre effort at cyberbullying. I demand high quality, targeted ad hominem attacks that address my actual insecurities. You could have gone after my grammar and spelling, said my yarn tension was too tight, or my hand stitching was uneven. You could have said I would never pay off my student loans or would never be a home owner. You could have said I'm not a responsible pet parent, that I would never live independently due to my disabilities, or told me "you'll never be physically able to go backpacking in Europe, you stupid crip." Going after the queer identity I claim with pride is as effective an insult as your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Meglio frocio che fascista–and I’d rather be a Tranny than a TERF.

Git gud, you absolute noob.



Notes:

Take the L or gather your fascist minions to leave nasty misogynistic and ableist comments here so the rest of us can block you!