This is probably an unwise post, but over the past couple of weeks, inexplicably, @scurator and I got an intense series of comments on one of our Good Omens fics and I made the mistake of engaging, and now I’m just really upset about the incredibly ill-informed and offensive comments on religion, the VERY SHITTY theology and I think tbh the anti-Semitism inherent in the particular condemnation of OT God. Like, m’boff stepped in and was like “one of us is Christian” and they were just like “here’s an overblown description of why that sucks” AND IT IS ON A GOOD OMENS FIC.
I mean this person has just been Wrong quite extensively (about eg Wilde) so I don’t know why I care so much, but also I’m a bit jangled as I’d been assuming they were very young and in fact they could be my age or older from what they’ve said! And they’re just…. out there putting their terrible opinions all over our fic!
Anyway the post about being a popular fic writer made me think of this because this absolutely sucks. And on a Good Omens fic! Can you even imagine going to some hockey RPF to wax lyrical about how great the fic was but then absolutely condemn the playing of all team sports as evil?
What also bothers me is that I was nice!! And while I don’t have the theological background to be like “here is precisely why what you’re saying is inaccurate”, I did do about Wilde!!! The beginning of the thread was about Wilde and I was nice and not just like “you are so incredibly wrong about this”.
Anyway, this was stupid and upsetting.
