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So here's a funny thing.
2 years ago
Besides all my stuff here, when Guardians of the Galaxy 1/2 came out I wrote a bunch of squeaky clean fanfics focusing mostly on Rocket. Unlike the couple of Rocket vore stories I did here these were more or less G rated, with some bloodshed and a lot of trauma, but all the sex took place off camera. I hook Rocket up with Lylla and even his dad shows up. It was great fun to write and as of this moment I have something like 175,000 words of it over on AO3 under Woozletania. I'm still adding to it bit by bit.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/W.....zletania/works
So a month or so a guy popped up in the comments over there and started asking "Why didn't Cosmo appear in your stories" and other innocent stuff. All of a sudden, something like 10 comments in, he asks "Will you do a story where Rocket and Lylla sink into quicksand and can't escape."
Now, when I was a little woozle, if you saw a palm tree or a jungle on your black and white TV, someone was going to fall into quicksand. It was that common back then, I swear it happened in almost every show, plus old black and white movies. And while I probably picked up a vore fetish from all the vore in older cartoons, I had the opposite reaction to this. I am literally quicksandophobic and won't even go into a marshy area without a stick to poke the ground. This despite reasoning out that quicksand has to be denser than water so you won't sink out of sight in it. (Mythbusters confirmed this.) It's still dangerous because you can get stuck and die of exposure, but it's not sucky movie quicksand.
So as you might guess I said "No". At this point he flew off the handle and told me I sucked and my writing sucked. Not the sort of behavior to make friends and influence people.
And then today on FA someone contacted me out of the blue and asked if I took requests. I do, occasionally, but when I looked over at his favorites it was almost all quicksand stuff. I didn't make the connection at the time so I just said our fetishes didn't appear to line up.
Lo and behold, he said "you and your stuff will suck you cowardly cur" quote unquote.
This is a weird thing to have happen twice so I can only imagine it's the same person. I replied back and asked if he was and he'd already blocked me.
Now, this is all perfectly harmless. I just thought it was weird it would happen to me twice. People be crazy.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/W.....zletania/works
So a month or so a guy popped up in the comments over there and started asking "Why didn't Cosmo appear in your stories" and other innocent stuff. All of a sudden, something like 10 comments in, he asks "Will you do a story where Rocket and Lylla sink into quicksand and can't escape."
Now, when I was a little woozle, if you saw a palm tree or a jungle on your black and white TV, someone was going to fall into quicksand. It was that common back then, I swear it happened in almost every show, plus old black and white movies. And while I probably picked up a vore fetish from all the vore in older cartoons, I had the opposite reaction to this. I am literally quicksandophobic and won't even go into a marshy area without a stick to poke the ground. This despite reasoning out that quicksand has to be denser than water so you won't sink out of sight in it. (Mythbusters confirmed this.) It's still dangerous because you can get stuck and die of exposure, but it's not sucky movie quicksand.
So as you might guess I said "No". At this point he flew off the handle and told me I sucked and my writing sucked. Not the sort of behavior to make friends and influence people.
And then today on FA someone contacted me out of the blue and asked if I took requests. I do, occasionally, but when I looked over at his favorites it was almost all quicksand stuff. I didn't make the connection at the time so I just said our fetishes didn't appear to line up.
Lo and behold, he said "you and your stuff will suck you cowardly cur" quote unquote.
This is a weird thing to have happen twice so I can only imagine it's the same person. I replied back and asked if he was and he'd already blocked me.
Now, this is all perfectly harmless. I just thought it was weird it would happen to me twice. People be crazy.
It's quite a world out there.
It's interesting, some single furs can drive an entire niche fandom.
Hmmmm.
Like, do people think it's okay to behave like this?
Share the similar issue, some people just make it hard to talk with them, because they feel kinda unreal and strange?
Some people guess cannot handle a no these days, even if a no should really just be a no \o/
But don't let it get to ya too much, keep doing great job and enjoy what you do for a passion. There's plenty who loves your work, cheesy as that might sound.
I'm f*cking weird as is. I try not to throw stones from my rather damaged glass house. But man, I can't help but to sympathize with the guy just a little. Some people just never got taught basic social mores, and others can't grasp them at all. Then again, some people are just entitled assholes, so who knows.
I also don't blame you for being rather quicksand-phobic. Especially in swamps. Swamp mud is actually a real threat - it can hide potentially deadly potholes and marsh traps, and by itself it's murder to get through. But that's neither here nor there, I guess.
I agree that it was likely the same person trying another angle after the first refusal and outburst (as sometimes these people do later come to realize "hmm...my cussing them out may dissuade them from future requests"). Regardless, people who respond that poorly, and essentially socially violently, to being told "no" are most certainly people you want to avoid dealing with if at all possible.
Considering what's been going on recently, I thought you were going to say that someone was claiming those Rocket stories were in violation of the new guidelines.
It's not hard. Enjoy what you want, but respect other's limits be they phobias or not.
A certain episode of quantum leap involving a closet mirror comes to mind.
I hope he at least gave up, and wont pester you to make something you are not into again.
If FA would make that a thing for comments...
Quicksand traps always seemed like the retro 'how the hero saves the day' scene from the outdated adventurer genre, anyhow. I do suppose that with the rise of today's AI technology, anyone can soon (if not already) just ask one of those to create such stories. (And probably movies, pretty soon.) Say... 'I want such and such characters from the series this or that to be in peril by quicksand. They can't escape.' Things are becoming easy enough for that to be a thing. So, this person can soon, if not already, have no excuse to meet their needs without being a creepy troll towards you.