User blog:AustinDR/Taking the Show Seriously

Now as I have said before, I view animation as an art form. That is often why I do reviews on the episodes for the show. While I do critique the show for some flaws, I do it, not because I take everything that happens in the show 100% seriously, but it's that I love the show and I want it to improve in some areas. However, then there's the time that many fans take the show too seriously...even though it's a cartoon. Think of any of the episodes in which Lincoln gets inconvenienced. As I have said, while I do feel bad for Lincoln in some respects, I do understand that it is a part of the joke. But I swear, some fans take what happens in the show too seriously. We call those the "Lincoln worshippers" where they basically believe that Lincoln can do no wrong while his sisters are always in the wrong, or alternatively, they are ranked by how "nice" or "bad" they are. That probably explains why I tend to be indifferent towards Lincoln a bit. I mean, god forbid if Lincoln were to get a splinter in his thumb. And then the hatred for the bad episodes tends to go as far as to have some "fans" drop the show entirely, or worse yet, they try to rally themselves together to have a writer that they don't like banned or be made to never write again. I mean, I loathe a select few of the episodes, but at most, I would just talk about them. I don't try to threaten writers. I mean, after that one infamous episode, a Korean artist drew Lynn kicking Chris Savino's butt...even though he wasn't over the episode. Even with "L is for Love," there were polarizing opinions. I mean, one author over on FF.net disliked the episode because of his religious background and dropped the show. A little extreme of a reason, but reasonable. But then he makes a story where he basically belittles bisexuals with the whole "you have to choose one or the other" nonsense. I don't hate religion in general, but seriously?

And then there's those fanfics that try to "fix" episodes. While I know many people do these types of stories on here, I personally feel that they're kind of pointless. Just because you write a story fixing an episodes' problem does not mean that the bad episode no longer exists because it is non-canonical. It just again feels like the person only made the story because they absolutely hated the episode it was based on. I mean, "No Such Luck," and "Brawl in the Family" are basically dead horses now, and people still have deep grudges against these episodes. Heck, one user claimed that "BITF" outright traumatized them by giving them multiple nightmares. But getting into the subject of fanfics...I'm honestly just thinking about dropping any I plan on writing. As I have mentioned, I have indifference feelings towards fanfics like Requiem or Syngesophobia, simply because I am getting annoyed by how much some users over at Fan Fiction bring them up. I mean, I get that they're both good stories in their own ways, but when you do stories, and several reviewers say that you should read those. That is what happened to several of my stories that I basically ended up dropping. Besides that, I already explained extensively why I disliked Requiem basically because since I'm not really fond of Lincoln, I can't really feel sad for the fact he's dying (I care more about the impact that it'll have than the fact that he is dying). He is written almost like some Christ figure, and I still do not like that one scene involving underage drinking. That's not even getting into that April Fools' Day stunt the writer did. I mean, after that, I got duped again when Adult Swim aired Rick and Morty repeatedly. At that point, I just dropped the story, and I don't care about reading anymore of it. As for the latter...I still like it, but ultimately, it's okay. Really, the more these "reviewers" recommended any of my watchers to read either of these two stories, I grew to resent them more each second.

But some hack writers (or maybe they weren't; who cares) would then call some of my stories bad mostly because they don't reach the heights of the previously mentioned stories. No, of course not; I wasn't trying to be like those two authors, and yet here they are expecting the same quality as those two stories. Look, I am not trying to be the next Shakespeare or Stephen King...I was a beginning writer. Cut me some slack. But no, that never happened; I would get repeated messages saying my story sucked, that I was a monster for making the Loud family suffer, that I should go to H- E (double hockey sticks), to outright declaring it the worst story on the site. Really, this was the primary reason that I wish I never wrote "Shattered Innocence." That story proved nothing but to be a nightmare. Look, I'll be the first to say that my story sucked; literally, the story was dead on arrival, and it was my fault for that. I hadn't realized that it was going to be a bigger project than I had hoped, so I did make a few decisions that I wasn't entirely proud of. I get it; I'm a hack writer. Really, the only reason as to why anyone read that story in the first place was because it was another "NSL" story that I had failed to make any different. Even though I had extensively stated over and over and over that I did not hate the episode, no one believed me. That, and they really only read it because Lynn was receiving some punishment for what she did in that episode. I had received nothing but hate thousands of times over for that story that I didn't even care if writers like That Engineer liked my story; I was done. If all those months planning the story amounted to a simple "meh," I clearly wasted those moments in my life for a story that was dead on arrival. Sometimes my low self-esteem gets to the point that even if I were to receive a compliment for one of my stories,  I can't really process it. At worse  I wouldn't know what to say; other times, I feel that I am being lied to. Yes, I know that I'm a terrible writer,  I don't need to be reminded of that constantly.

Overall, that's how I feel about the show. I just feel that some people tend to take what is supposed to be a kid's show too seriously. Any show can have a bad episode here and there, but that shouldn't make the show any less enjoyable.