Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 19: the infamous due South troll

[ride_4ever]

If you are in due South fandom you know about the "infamous due South troll," she of many names and one obsession: for decades she has been seeking out due South fic and vids that don't jibe with her personal opinion about which ships and which storylines are "true or not". She was flaming me even before I posted my first fic...back in 2011 she flamed my comment that I made on YouTube about a due South vid that I liked, telling me what was "wrong" with the perspective of the vid and how I was "wrong" for liking it. She actively seeks out for reading and for watching stuff that she knows she won't like and then she reads it or watches it and then she spews out her hatred. The last most recent time that she flamed me -- before TODAY -- was in 2023 when she pounced on a fic that I had written eleven years earlier and said hateful things about it -- I did not respond to her hate and TODAY she returned to that same fic and in even greater detail than previously FLAMED THE SAME FIC A SECOND TIME. Hells, that is some tenacity -- REREADING a fic to which she had already "objected" (she told me that she "disagreed" with my fic) and then commenting further in the face of my previous non-response. /o\

Comments

[verushka70]

Like I said in email... that is some serious decades long untreated or undertreated mental illness. She'd never have the balls to do this in person, I'll wager. It's the kind of thing cowards do online BECAUSE they're cowards in real life. Sorry you had to put up with it.

I've only gotten crap on a fic from her once, & it was NOT from a registered AO3 account - it was a fic where I'd left blank the "comments allowed only from registered AO3 users" ticky-box. (I otherwise have that box ticked ALL the time for all my fics.)

I don't think she can get an AO3 account anymore - I think she's banned from getting an AO3 account at the IP address level because she's been reported so. Many. TIMES. for so many, many years. But if you don't turn that option on, anyone can comment on your AO3 fic using whatever identification (real or fake email) they choose. Which can be nice... Or it used to be, before the Internet was overrun with millions of children & unstable adults who behave like children.

It's a bummer, & I'm sure it cuts down a lot on the comments one might otherwise get, but it's the only way to block this kind of bullshit from mentally unstable cowards like her. Besides, non registered users can still leave kudos.

[pigtailed_goddess]

I'm so sorry they've done this throughout to you and taint the fandom and experience for you, for us all, like this. You especially do such lovely works and take time to keep fandom active and engaged.

I want to thank you for being on here and other spaces. I don't comment often enough.

The good should drown out the weirdly obsessive butting in negative. They've no place to do that to people creating, there's no justification, and it's such ick behaviour.

[hsavinien]

Jesus, she's still kicking? Sorry you're in the line of fire again.

[msilverstar]

Can people just block her on AO3?