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*

[aurumcalendula]

Ugh! That is so bizarre and upsetting!

[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*

[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...

[lucy_roman]

I think I know who you are talking about. Any story of mine that included Vecchio she would swoop in and give me a lecture. I found those type of comments really confidence destroying. I hope she stays away from me.i am sure you deal with it all better than I do.

[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!

[baronjanus]

Impressive, in a way. Is this the Vecchio one? I always have an extra "poor Vecchio" thought to spare when she comes up. On a more useful line of thought, is this on sites where it's possible to block or to report to someone who cares?

[clarasteam]

GAH *hugs* I'm sorry this is still happening/ happening again.

[minoanmiss]

*gives you a sustaining hug*

[amedia]

TODAY she returned to that same fic and in even greater detail than previously FLAMED THE SAME FIC A SECOND TIME.

That sounds weirdly like a compliment - albeit a disturbing one.

You okay, bb? *big hugs*

[lauramcewan]

OH fer fuck's sake - GET A LIFE, TROLL

[kass]

my goodness, what is wrong with some people?!

[gremdark]

Some things are eternal, I guess. The Miraculous Ladybug fandom has the “Lila Anon” who comes into the comments of fic featuring a specific unpopular character and roleplays as her in a smug, mean girl style, saying that negative aspects of her portrayal in the fic are unrealistic or wouldn’t happen. It’s been almost a decade.

[isis]

Haha wow. Either I've been out of the fandom so long I don't remember this person, or I have been singularly blessed by being ignored by her. (Or maybe my work is so insignificant she never noticed it!)

What a pain for you! Please continue to not respond to her hate - sounds like the best policy.

[corvidology]

WTF?

When fandom becomes a really bad career choice???????????

I think some people just identify far too strongly for everyone's good with certain characters.

*squishes you* ♥

[leredqueen]

Ugh so sorry to hear that. I had the dubious honour of meeting her recently, and wow I can't believe she's (I hear) is still out here dunking on dS works?? Re-reading fic for all the wrong reasons no less? Anyway sorry that happened, and I'm gonna go give your fics some love because that's what we should be doing anyway.

[scintilla10]

omg, how awful and pathetic that this person has been doing this for so many years! I'm sorry she's after you again. *hugs*