S O U L M A T E S (SasuNaruSasu Magazine) Soulmates Magazine Nº2 | Page 10

they do not know how to take criticism of
their work in a good way.
Of course it is not good to get to the extremes
of harassment in case they delete your com-
ments and do not understand what you want
to say. Doing this would be going too far.
However, we have another scenario that is
even more known than the previous one. The-
re are people who write very hurtful things
and feel doubly offended when the author res-
ponds with the same kind of rudeness. It is a
natural reaction; If someone insults you in the
street you won’t respond with a smile, will
you? And unfortunately, in the end, who ends
up being penalized is the author for being
"rude". Therefore, again, we must base our
behaviour on respect, because in order to de-
mand respect you must also give it. It is not
good to assume that the author is always like
that, or that they are haughty and rude people;
it could simply be that your comment really
disturbed them a lot, or they were going
through a bad momento in their lives while
they were reading your review and their
mood was affected. Actually the possibilities
are endless, but it is not good to judge by so-
mething that happened once. Naturally it has
justification, but that does not mean that it
should be done.
We writers always want to innovate, not only
for ourselves but also because we want what
to do what pleases those who read us, that is
why we let our imagination fly and we create
10 We research some topics to make
new ideas.
interesting plots and contribute something tota
lly new and even a bit crazy. The sad reality of
doing this is that it is not always valued.
It is not wrong to have certain preferences
when we read, we all have them, but it would
not be bad to open up to new perspectives.
What do I mean by this? Well, maybe the
authors have found comments like: "Is it Naru-
Sasu or SasuNaru?" This becomes disconcerting
and, regardless of the couple, we work on the
story and drive the reader to fall in love with
it, since being in love with the couple (whatever
the mode) is already a fact.
There are secondary pairs in a writing, which
could go against what we like. In these situa-
tions most of the time the authors would put
warnings or tag the couples that will found in-
side the fic in order to keep people informed. If
they do this, then why do we complain or de-
mand another couple if from the beginning that
was already involved in the fic? If we dislike it,
we can stop reading at any time, nothing will
happen if we do, but if the author has already
defined the direction the story will take, we
can not demand a change just because we do
not like it. It is not wrong to open our minds a
little to the "crack couples". There are great and
interesting plots behind them, and we let them
pass only because we do not like them. We
could simply take a look and explore, and if it
is not our complete pleasure we just go and
look for more things to read.
And not to mention the conflict with the fa-
mous OoC in fics. It is true, our dear teme and
dobe have a fairly defined personality, and it is
sad thing that there is no accurancy to these,
however, the unreal attitude is just what the
term OoC means.