My most consistently flamed story

[icarus]

I don't often get flames, concrit yes, but not flames. Yet somehow, for some reason this drabble consistently inspires them:


In November
by Icarus


His lips were soft, which was unexpected. Ron looked like he was all skinny angles, but he was soft really. His eyelashes fluttered closed, his breath a warm pant on Neville's cheek, a November mist.

They had just been talking, that's all, about Quidditch and family and girls and things like that, when it got really, really quiet.

Neville breathed a sigh, and took in the arching branches overhead, the quiet lake, the patch of sky.

"We probably shouldn't do that again."

They both agreed, as they leaned in for a second kiss.

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Mystified?

Me too.

Comments

[incoming.livejournal.com]

I Do Not Get flamer!logic. It doesn't even apply in any real-life situations. I mean, say, somebody is wearing a t-shirt that you don't really like, or you think is too loud or something. Are you going to walk right up to that person and start bitching them out because of their obvious lack of fashion sense?

Or say you're at a poetry reading and somebody reads some of your own stuff that you think is in bad taste. It's obviously even worse taste for you to sidle up to them and say, "man, that blew". It's like a heaping portion of social retardation, with a side of undue arrogance. Either these people don't seem to realize that there are some rules of etiquette that apply both on and offline, or they just don't care.

Sorry that was ranty, but yes. Flamers. (N) I thought it was good.

[haku-kaen.livejournal.com]

I Do Not Get flamer!logic. It doesn't even apply in any real-life situations.

It's just further proof of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03-19).

They don't need to worry about any retribution at all other then, at worst, flames in return, so they chuck normal rules of etiquette out the window in favor of being the asshats they'd never get away with being IRL.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Which means, then, that they are asshats in the wild?

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I Do Not Get flamer!logic.

Yesterday afternoon I snickered over this. Though I think "Flamer Logic" is an oxymoron.

Icarus