I have a FictionPress.com account, which I have not really done anything with in years. It's got awful poetry and fiction from my teenage years, and a tongue-in-cheek instructional essay I submitted in Year Ten English. I don't really want to link it here (not least of all because I'm too lazy to go searching for the link just now), but its title is How to Take Over the World in Ten Easy Steps. The more astute of you could probably have worked out from the title that it's, well, a joke. Today, I received this pisser of a review for it, and I had to share:
A new review/comment has been submitted to your story. Story: How To Take Over the World in Ten Easy Steps Chapter: 1. Default Chapter From: Archangel () ------------------- Archangel:You call this an Instructional? This is a MOCK instructional to become a MOCK overlord from fiction. To become a REAL overlord, you first have to answer the question: what would you DO with the world if you ruled it? If you don't have an answer to that, and "whatever I want" isn't an answer, then don't bother. While I'm at it, an overlord is someone who actually HAS an answer to that question but the answer reveals their weak ego. So it's something like "make everyone sing praises to me", suggesting they need psychotherapy sessions more than anything else. Having a real answer to 'what would you do with the world?' is the first step to becoming a Being of Power, a Celestial or Infernal. Something infinitely more fearsome than a pathetic overlord.
I haven't stopped laughing yet.
