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

[mergatrude]

Oh my freaking god! That is a serious level of mental instability. :(

At least we all look back and laugh now?

*hugshugshugshugshugshugshugs*

[donutsweeper]

Oh my god I know exactly who you are talking about and I cannot believe they are still around! Wow. I just do not understand those kind of people. Ugh.

[dine]

well, there's someone I'm certain I'd love -hard to believe such unbalanced behavior. that's just bizarre, not even counting returning and re-flaming a fic after years.

[scriggle]

Oh my god! She's still around? That is just sad. Hugs to you.

[petra]

Amazing tenacity in the realm of failure to get a better hobby in that troll's life.

*hugs*

[ride_4ever]

Yeah, it's the kind of laugh where we laugh at the absurd....

*hugs moar*

[ride_4ever]

As the time passed between then and now, I sometimes wondered "is that troll finally done?"...but no.

[ride_4ever]

Troll has been and continues to be on a one-person mission to attempt to keep the Ray Wars alive. /o\

[ride_4ever]

Yeah, still around. Troll gotta troll.

*hugs moar*

[ride_4ever]

Yeah, she wins at tenacity in the "Pathetic Tenacity" category.

*hugs moar*

[aurumcalendula]

Ugh! That is so bizarre and upsetting!

[petra]

Silver lining: perfect icon is perfect.

[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*

[goss]

She was flaming me even before I posted my first fic...back in 2011

Wow. It's quite sad for that person that they haven't found something good in their life all these years later. I'm sorry your work and others in the fandom are still being targeted. *hugs*

[torino10154]

Wow, that's crazy. WTF

[elayna]

Wow, that’s someone who needs to get a life! What a sad pathetic person.

[sovay]

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.

Not being in Due South fandom, I had no idea.

*hugs*

[dine]

I do not remember the Ray Wars at all fondly - are we positive revisiting is really the best plan? *g*

[amalthia]

wow, that troll had commitment, but seriously why are they doing this to themselves??? Not cool that they are inflicting their mental illness on other people...

[ride_4ever]

The sane mind cannot grasp why someone would go looking for fanworks they don't like and spend their time reading or watching what they don't like instead of seeking out what they would like.

[ride_4ever]

What's even more pathetic is that for the troll it isn't "revisiting". She never LEFT.

[ride_4ever]

Thank you kindly for the hug. I am a very huggy person. *hugs moar*

[ride_4ever]

And it's even more sad and pathetic when we consider that this IS what she has done with "get a life". This is the life she has gotten for herself.

[ride_4ever]

Yep, WTF is an apropos reaction.

[ride_4ever]

Thank you for the kind words and the hugs. And what a troubling thought that for the troll this may be what she thinks IS the something good in her life.

*hugs moar*