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

[mific]

Firstly, JFC what a dick move - I'm sure you've got lots of objectivity about her but it's never fun to get a shitty comment on something you created. Secondly, I honestly wonder if she's mentally ill. That sort of bizarre repetition and obsessiveness is not sane, so I wonder if she has a delusional disorder? They're famously hard to treat as the person is insightless and usually won't take medication, or not long term. No excuse, though, but maybe try saying to yourself, oh no, the troll's off her meds again!

[ride_4ever]

The question about her mental health -- and the lack of said health -- has indeed been raised a number of times over a number of years. I really don't even feel rattled by her anymore, like I did back when I was new in fandom. It's more like I breathe a heavy sigh and think "oh, this again...."