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Stop using the word “criticism” as a shield to excuse yourself when you attack and harass writers on a personal level.
Saying “you, the author are a monster, and your fiction is destroying society” is an attack, not a literary analysis or criticism.
Likewise, taking your complaints directly to the author at all–especially a fanfiction author writing for free– is always harassment.
Actual literary analysis and criticism is aimed at the audience or potential audience, not at the author of the work.
This is why reviews for movies are published in magazines, and not mailed to the director’s house.
it’s been really irritating seeing the dilution of something meant as a positive because of bad actors, to a point where “don’t like don’t read” became a go to because trolls became the face of literature analysis in fandom fiction when it also use to mean something positive.
While it sounds ridiculous to associate “literature analysis” with fanfiction for some, there are and use to be more pockets of fans who would love to dive deep into how literary beats/tools/cliches would be used in fiction of their fandom. Small exchanges of passions that: yes sometimes got bad but sometimes were good. Where passion was used where fans would breaking down points of characters and themes they loved about a series or it’s characters or a way story tropes were used to tell it’s storyline(s) and let nerdy storytelling nerds nerd out with a fellow nerd.
That may still be seen around, but not as much because of how all or nothing we have had to become because of referenced bad actors in fandoms who would harass others.
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