Moonpearl
The Yuri Empress
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Must vent, must cry, must evaporate for my sanity.
So, this gal plays mobile sim date games in her spare time for a bit of casual fun. Usually take my sister's recommendations because she plays them more often and faster than me. They're sometimes horrible, sometimes great, but it's all good in the name of shits and giggles.
Today I loaded up the newest game I downloaded and decided to get cracking on it, after spending a week or two building up points so I can play without frustration. The description says the MC I'll have to play as is some famous author, so I'm expecting cringe, but I'm ready for it.
We open on the scene of this very nice, very polite and enthusiastic fan asking the MC to sign something for him and telling her how much he loves her work. Her replies are four year-old levels of intelligence, but standards are pretty low for sim date MCs anyway. Life skills of any description are not a necessity for those things.
It turns out that this is actually her first ever fan - and she makes the awful mistake of not recognising him and trying to blow him off like a normal one. Big whoops, but it happens.
But then she starts making the crappiest excuses to get out of the conversation when he starts (very sincerely!) taking an interest in her new novel plans and asking some nice, non-intrusive questions. She scampers off to her friend and proceeds to bitch hard.
She's acting like she's a published author with thousands of obsessive fans (and being well-liked is such a burden), but the game actually says she's some mediocre webnovelist who writes bad romances.
Also, her fan was nice enough to ask her to sign something, and she's literally no one. Is she not even a little flattered? I smell a narcissist.
But I'm still expecting that the game will keep the writing career as a gimmick. I also reckon that scene was probably meant to make the fan look creepier than he actually turned out, so I persevere.
But then, her phone buzzes! It's a comment from a reader! And... Oh noes, it's not a ~positive~ one.
In two lines, the reader (again, very politely and maturely) says that her romances don't feel very realistic and that she maybe has to work on that aspect of her writing.
At this point, the game stops to inform us that the MC has a genuine disadvantage when it comes to writing romance because she's never had a boyfriend. So not only is this feedback not an insult, but it's also objectively true.
However, while the MC acknowledges that other writers (*cough* better writers *cough*) would be able to handle such a comment, she feels that her work is a part of her soul and, rather than reflecting on how attaching her entire self-esteem to her success in an art where you fail more times than you succeed is dooming her to a life of failure, she decides that means that she doesn't have to try at all.
The game then gives me a choice of how to respond to this feedback. At least, thinks little old me, I can choose to respond to this maturely for her and save myself the second-hand embarrassment.
Options:
1. Pull out the old "it's fiction so who cares; don't read it if you don't like it, hater!" spiel (Then proceed to suck your thumb like the baby you are.)
2. Get salty and argue that it's not true (Even though we just acknowledged that it is. The writer must always be right, even when she's wrong. Proceed to suck your whole hand - you are now a fetus.)
At least it can't possibly get worse, right?
Ding! She has another notification! It's her favourite author on the website - a real big shot - swooping in to defend her, her holy white knight against this terrible not-fan, and -
I shut the whole game down to keep myself from a mental breakdown. Holy smokes, the writer of this game thinks that this behaviour is a good thing. And that guy is definitely a love interest, and there's going to be scenes upon scenes of them discussing writing and stroking each other's egos, exchanging enlightened pointers on the best way to treat your fans like shit to make yourself feel good.
I have to play a toxic writer dating a toxic writer in a game written by a toxic writer. Toxic-ception.
The problem is, at this point I have too many hours sunk into this game to not play it. My sister says it's really good, so long as I can get past how often you want to break the MC's nose. And it has dragons.
But this is seriously my personal version of Hell.
S E N D H E L P
TL;DR: Writers allegedly never grow up from being edgy, self-absorbed thirteen year-olds and apparently that's HOT.
So, this gal plays mobile sim date games in her spare time for a bit of casual fun. Usually take my sister's recommendations because she plays them more often and faster than me. They're sometimes horrible, sometimes great, but it's all good in the name of shits and giggles.
Today I loaded up the newest game I downloaded and decided to get cracking on it, after spending a week or two building up points so I can play without frustration. The description says the MC I'll have to play as is some famous author, so I'm expecting cringe, but I'm ready for it.
We open on the scene of this very nice, very polite and enthusiastic fan asking the MC to sign something for him and telling her how much he loves her work. Her replies are four year-old levels of intelligence, but standards are pretty low for sim date MCs anyway. Life skills of any description are not a necessity for those things.
It turns out that this is actually her first ever fan - and she makes the awful mistake of not recognising him and trying to blow him off like a normal one. Big whoops, but it happens.
But then she starts making the crappiest excuses to get out of the conversation when he starts (very sincerely!) taking an interest in her new novel plans and asking some nice, non-intrusive questions. She scampers off to her friend and proceeds to bitch hard.
She's acting like she's a published author with thousands of obsessive fans (and being well-liked is such a burden), but the game actually says she's some mediocre webnovelist who writes bad romances.
Also, her fan was nice enough to ask her to sign something, and she's literally no one. Is she not even a little flattered? I smell a narcissist.
But I'm still expecting that the game will keep the writing career as a gimmick. I also reckon that scene was probably meant to make the fan look creepier than he actually turned out, so I persevere.
But then, her phone buzzes! It's a comment from a reader! And... Oh noes, it's not a ~positive~ one.
In two lines, the reader (again, very politely and maturely) says that her romances don't feel very realistic and that she maybe has to work on that aspect of her writing.
At this point, the game stops to inform us that the MC has a genuine disadvantage when it comes to writing romance because she's never had a boyfriend. So not only is this feedback not an insult, but it's also objectively true.
However, while the MC acknowledges that other writers (*cough* better writers *cough*) would be able to handle such a comment, she feels that her work is a part of her soul and, rather than reflecting on how attaching her entire self-esteem to her success in an art where you fail more times than you succeed is dooming her to a life of failure, she decides that means that she doesn't have to try at all.
The game then gives me a choice of how to respond to this feedback. At least, thinks little old me, I can choose to respond to this maturely for her and save myself the second-hand embarrassment.
Options:
1. Pull out the old "it's fiction so who cares; don't read it if you don't like it, hater!" spiel (Then proceed to suck your thumb like the baby you are.)
2. Get salty and argue that it's not true (Even though we just acknowledged that it is. The writer must always be right, even when she's wrong. Proceed to suck your whole hand - you are now a fetus.)
At least it can't possibly get worse, right?
Ding! She has another notification! It's her favourite author on the website - a real big shot - swooping in to defend her, her holy white knight against this terrible not-fan, and -
I shut the whole game down to keep myself from a mental breakdown. Holy smokes, the writer of this game thinks that this behaviour is a good thing. And that guy is definitely a love interest, and there's going to be scenes upon scenes of them discussing writing and stroking each other's egos, exchanging enlightened pointers on the best way to treat your fans like shit to make yourself feel good.
I have to play a toxic writer dating a toxic writer in a game written by a toxic writer. Toxic-ception.
The problem is, at this point I have too many hours sunk into this game to not play it. My sister says it's really good, so long as I can get past how often you want to break the MC's nose. And it has dragons.
But this is seriously my personal version of Hell.
S E N D H E L P
TL;DR: Writers allegedly never grow up from being edgy, self-absorbed thirteen year-olds and apparently that's HOT.
