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\

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[juniperberry]

1) Ugh, I'm sorry she's bothering you again! That's so annoying and sad.

2) I did know she was lurking again, though, because she's been hitting a couple of the newer authors and they mentioned it on the discord. Luckily they're well aware that she's got A History so they took it in stride, but oof. I had hoped she was done with this nonsense but apparently not.

*hugs*

[ride_4ever]

Dreamwidth is my fannish home, so I miss out on what's happening amongst the dS fen on Discord. Good to know that the newer authors who mentioned on the Discord about the troll were advised about her History.

I divide my fic-reading time between reading to play catch-up with older fic I haven't read yet while also trying to keep up with reading and commenting on the newest works. If you were to tell me which newer writers have been flamed by the troll I would make it a point to read their fic soon and leave some positive comments.

*hugs moar*

[juniperberry]

Yeah, the anon is someone everyone kinda needs to be warned about--I know I saw posts on tumblr from proto-would-be fans who were completely blindsided by her and really put off. Those were from ten years or so ago now, but it was a bummer to see.

The fic/fanart in question was this one: Identity Crisis by Gj Draws. Fantastic fanartist! But of course the anon had to take umbrage with someone more talented than her. /snark

Ironically, this fanartist is also pretty equally f/v and f/k, with I think more of an f/v preference, and yet....

[ride_4ever]

Oh, I love the fanart of gjdraws! I actually left comments of praise on that particular piece of art about two weeks ago. So ironic for the troll to criticize when gjdraws is clearly RAyV-positive, even their icon is "half RayV". (Although, as I've said before, even when I've written RayV-positive fic the troll still flamed it for being NOT POSITIVE ENOUGH.)