It's really frustrating having this one reader whose every comment has been bashing my fic in one way or the other. Like, why are you still reading?!
But at the same time, I still appreciate it... they at least care enough to stick around and stick a needle in my ego every now and then... ya know?
Ever have to deal with petty ass bosses?
As a temp seasonal interior decorator, I carry the heavy stuff for the four old people in the department (40-70s). I'm talking mirrors bigger than me, sofas I swear to the Stars are heavier than me across the entire store, three boxes of heavy and fragile glassware, it runs the gamut... by myself. So it is ridiculously strenuous activity.
You ever get the feeling where you disappoint someone for the millionth time and are like “I’m out! I’m done! I am done with this stupid game. I’m so done with this game! I quit! There’s just no fucking winning this, is there? This is so DUMB!” and the game you’re quitting is life?
Chomping down on some delicious pheasant, my teeth stopped on some hard, metal balls. Thusly, I learned that when you eat a pheasant someone hunted, be careful, because sometimes they don't get all of the bullets out. Bleck!
Your thread reminded me of the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility." If you have the power to save people and you don't, people will also blame you. If you are a healer capable of healing 1000s of people with one spell, then imagine if 1000s of people died in another city while you weren't there. People will also blame you, even if it's not your fault.
Half the time wondering the hell they going on about, and scratching my head while rereading the same stuff and coming up empty.
They ask to be spoiled, and then call me a bad author when I answered exactly what they wanted to know within the constraints of what they read.