So I've been leery about this little vent because an author responding to critics is always tricky ground to cover. So many Suethors lash out at perfectly reasonable criticisms, resorting to wanky tantrums and petty unsubtle Take Thats--so addressing critical reviews can come off as Suethor behavior/looking like you can't take criticism, even if it's mostly levelheaded and no "Return of Slade" or "Lady in the Water."

However, I decided to go ahead with it for a few reasons:

1) Keeping things all bottled up all the time isn't the best idea and I need to vent sometime.
2) Critics are no more always right and always valid than authors are; not all feedback has merit. Stupid, pointless flames do exist.
3) It's my personal journal, I can use it as I wish.

So, without further ado, awhile back I got a spate of anonymous unsigned reviews, mostly on AO3 but a couple on FFN as well. (You know, you could at least have the courage to sign your comments--I would certainly leave harsh or critical reviews under my own user handles!) And, well, it seems this lovely anon had a few... grievances with how I wrote, shall we say. Said grievances seem to be... completely petty, unfounded, and not actually over anything I'm not writing well. There's actually quite a bit of snark bait in here!

Let's dig in, shall we?