Well said, Penns. I know we both write in totally different ways, but I respect your writing and art so much. I love that the character of Severus Snape still holds fascination for so many (see there, Jo Rowling?) and while I'm not a fan of SS Slash, I'll staunchly defend yours or anybody's rights to interpret the character in any myriad of ways.
Let the character live, and let us who love him write him in the way that we see fit. It's not my place to say what the character should do in yours or any other fics. Hell, I have enough problems keeping the snarky bastard in line in my own work.
Without going into all the dreary details, but I was writing a fic and while it was posting, someone posted a very pointed comment about a certain plot point that, in my mind, could have only been about what I was writing (my posting was only 15 minutes old at the time). It was too much of a coincidence because of the way it was said, and I very nearly pulled the story.
Everyone has their opinions, of course, but also, everyone is writing in a different way, a different interpretation. By all means, disagree, yes, give me concrit, by all means, but it's the same feeling of walking by in a blue dress and having a bunch of girls standing by while one says, "Don't you just hate the way some girls look in blue?" It's not going to help anyone, and it certainly doesn't make me a better writer. After I got over that queasy 'they're talking about me' feeling, I thought, hang on, they've got their opinion; it isn't mine, so well, okay.
Sorry, didn't mean to meander around like this. It is past my nap-time, you know.
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Let the character live, and let us who love him write him in the way that we see fit. It's not my place to say what the character should do in yours or any other fics. Hell, I have enough problems keeping the snarky bastard in line in my own work.
Without going into all the dreary details, but I was writing a fic and while it was posting, someone posted a very pointed comment about a certain plot point that, in my mind, could have only been about what I was writing (my posting was only 15 minutes old at the time). It was too much of a coincidence because of the way it was said, and I very nearly pulled the story.
Everyone has their opinions, of course, but also, everyone is writing in a different way, a different interpretation. By all means, disagree, yes, give me concrit, by all means, but it's the same feeling of walking by in a blue dress and having a bunch of girls standing by while one says, "Don't you just hate the way some girls look in blue?" It's not going to help anyone, and it certainly doesn't make me a better writer. After I got over that queasy 'they're talking about me' feeling, I thought, hang on, they've got their opinion; it isn't mine, so well, okay.
Sorry, didn't mean to meander around like this. It is past my nap-time, you know.