To AreYouFuckingSerious,

I don't think I have ever received a review as hurtful as yours, and maybe I should just ignore it - should try to focus on the supportive and kind reviews I've gotten before and since then - but I just can't.

You seem very upset and I don't understand why. Admittedly, I failed to include a trigger warning in both the summary and my author's note - an honest mistake I have fixed already and have now certainly paid for.

Regarding how you seemed to have read Turtleneck expecting something light, fluffy and sweet, I fully understand that you were overwhelmed by the very dark underlying theme i.e. domestic violence. I should've included a trigger warning from the very beginning and I fully take responsibility for that.

However, the hurtful part of your review was not your clearly stating that you dislike the entire DV topic but your attacking me personally. You seem to have taken a look at my profile - that I can deduce from your references to both tv shows I usually write fanfiction about and the year I joined this site. Nevertheless, the conclusions you drew from these very limited bits and pieces of information were highly inaccurate, even though your entire review reads like you were absolutely certain that what you were thinking and saying was true.

You assumed the reason why I had chosen Rizzoli & Isles for this fanfiction was because I hated the show and wanted to show that by inflicting pain on your beloved Maura Isles - assumptions you almost exclusively based on the realization that I had never written R&I fanfiction before.

If you had taken a closer look at the timeline of my publications on this website, you would've noticed I really get into a show I love, then write a whole bunch of stories about it and eventually start binge-watching another show that - naturally - the focus of my fanfictions shifts to. I started watching Rizzoli & Isles about three weeks ago and I'm absolutely in love with it. I know that R&I has been cancelled already but isn't the whole point of fanfiction to keep tv shows alive with your own ideas? Why would I be wasting me time writing stories for a tv show I hate? That doesn't make sense!

I doubt you have read any of my other stories - even though you claim to know me and them. If you had, you wouldn've noticed that I almost exclusively write Hurt/Comfort and Friendship - stories. Not because I enjoy making the characters of all these tv shows suffer - but because I like writing scenes/stories in which one person is there for his/her friend after something terrible happened to him/her. Isn't that what friendship is about?

Your review hurt because you pretended to know me even though your assumptions were completely wrong. If you don't like DV stories, don't read them. If you don't like my style of writing, tell me. If you think my English sucks, tell me that (it's not my first language after all). But don't you dare tell me you despise me as a person because you don't know me at all!

I don't expect everyone to love my stories - I don't even expect the reviews to be neutral for that matter - if you don't like it, you don't like it. What I should be able to expect though is some basic human decency which your review was certainly lacking!

I know that people can get really attached to tv shows - I do, too. But even if your assumptions of my deliberately bashing and hurting Maura's R&I character were true, Maura is only fictional. I'm not. I'm a real person with real feelings.

And you hurt me.