the sad thing is, i don't think they could handle fame even if it magically dropped in their lap like it did for stephenie meyer. i'm pretty sure that once their work became popular and people had free reign to mock/criticize/tear it apart at leisure, they'd pull an anne rice and go batshit. that's just how they are. they used to come to me freaking out about how so-and-so didn't give them glowing praise after they convinced them to read their story, and some of the things people said to them weren't even that bad. it was crit like "i couldn't follow the plot" and the like. the level of internet unadulterated douchebaggery they'd experience should their work go truly mainstream would probably send them into a complete nuclear meltdown.

they keep pushing and begging for me to read their work and tell them what i think. and what they don't know is that i've already read it. i just don't want to tell them what i think. i don't want to lie to them, but i don't want to be the next target of their immature idiocy. it's such an awkward position to be in.