Without having seen her City of Heroes posts (I assume in forums and whatnot, which I avoid like the plague) I can't speak to those, but I have seen Mercedes' public communication on her website and I've heard her speak (video of a con appearance, not in person), and those are what I base my interpretation on.
For her to be as well-liked an author as she is, obviously she has to have a good editor -- and I assume that the editor is very good at smoothing that out. Or perhaps, when Mercedes has time to review things herself, she fixes it. But when she's not writing for production purposes, it seems very apparent to me that she's... hmm... rather smugly superior, let's say.
I agree that it doesn't show in her for-pay writing. And I'm not saying she isn't (in some fashion) entitled to the attitude. But I agree that this instance of Tregarde is very condescending, and it meshes pretty much perfectly with my mental 'voice' for Mercedes herself based on what I've seen before. YMMV, as I said.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
For her to be as well-liked an author as she is, obviously she has to have a good editor -- and I assume that the editor is very good at smoothing that out. Or perhaps, when Mercedes has time to review things herself, she fixes it. But when she's not writing for production purposes, it seems very apparent to me that she's... hmm... rather smugly superior, let's say.
I agree that it doesn't show in her for-pay writing. And I'm not saying she isn't (in some fashion) entitled to the attitude. But I agree that this instance of Tregarde is very condescending, and it meshes pretty much perfectly with my mental 'voice' for Mercedes herself based on what I've seen before. YMMV, as I said.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs