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Rip noel gruber you would've loved hot to go, Sabrina carpenter, cross dressing in public, pride parades, chicago the musical, roblox (mostly to bully children), Mitski, Britney spears, any hot male celebrity, and surviving the cyclone incident (felt funny adding that)
#rtc noel#noel gruber#rip you wouldâve loved#noel rtc#rtc musical#rtc#ride the cyclone musical#ride the cyclone#i think im funny#probably not#feeling extra gay#i like posting
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So the issue about the right to post criticism on peopleâs fics have come up again. Okay.
First off, the most obvious thing: unless the person asks for constructive criticism, be very wary about giving it. Again, please, keep in mind: this is fanfiction. This is a story typed out by a fan in their free time and posted online for others to enjoy. This isnât a work that someone polished with the plan to publish for money. This is a fanwork posted by a fan for other fans to enjoy. Most writers I know donât want constructive criticism. They want to engage with other fans with a medium they enjoy. âI really enjoyed this and I hope you do, too. Hereâs an idea inspired by watching that scene.â
Of course, some writers do want constructive criticism. They ask right in their notes for it, which leads to my second point...
What are your credentials? When it comes to offering constructive criticism, are you confident in your skills to offer it? People tend to be, yeah... and then tell me what they would have written. âThis is something I would personally enjoy and I wish you had written this instead.â âThis does not match my headcanon of the character and you should have done this instead.â âYou should have written the other character as the top.â None of this is constructive criticism. None of this is helping a writer improve. When these thoughts occur, instead of leaving them as a comment, consider writing the fic yourself! Seriously! Go for it! Thatâs the joy of fanfiction! You want to see something? You can write it yourself!
But really, what are your credentials? Do you know how to edit? Proofread? Did you take classes? Do you have a degree? In what? Whatâs your personal experience? Can I see your resume? Can you offer constructive criticism in a way which will improve that specific writerâs specific style? Can you help the writer tell the story they want to tell and not you? Because that is incredibly challenging. Itâs easy as hell to tell someone what you would like to see in their story. Itâs also the reason many writing circles and writing groups fail: too often it dissolves into âThis is what I like, so you should change thisâ or âWell, such and such heard from such and such that this is really important for fiction.â Thatâs not how actual constructive criticism works. Thatâs not how you help a writer grow.Â
âWell, if someone is writing and posting stuff online, then I have the right to criticize them.â Do you enjoy having so many free works at your fingertips? Would you like to see it happen in the future? Because while youâre free to criticize, that writer is free to stop writing. Writers donât have to post. Writers can delete existing fics. Writers can and do give up because they are so excited to post their project online, only for multiple people to offer them âconstructive criticism,â making them feel like shit, while many other people enjoy the fic but donât bother telling the writer.Â
âI have the right to tell the author what I like.â You also have the right to write your own fic. Which is probably going to be more productive?
âI have the right to tell the author their fic grosses me out.â Great. You also have the right to tell that to random people you meet in the street. Go for it. I personally value the concept of âdonât like, donât read.â You did choose to deliberately read that fic, after all. Thatâs all on you. The author didnât put a gun to your head and force you to read that work.
âI have the right to tell the author their errors.â Did they ask? Why are you so focused on the errors and not what you liked about the fic? I promise, if you tell authors what you enjoy about their fics, that will help them grow their skills far more than criticism. Getting positive feedback encourages fic writing, and practice helps the writer with those errors far more than random people on the internet.
At the end of the day, is your constructive criticism helping? And honestly, is that âconstructive criticismâ for the author or for you to feel proud about your awesomeness or for you to lift yourself up by belittling someone else? Before you gave the constructive criticism, did you ask the person? Did you value their opinion enough to verify that they wanted it in the first place? Fuck, did you even take the time to ask the person if they wanted a beta reader? Because if someone is happily posting their fic and they didnât ask for help via a beta reader prior to posting, it might be because theyâre more focused on the fanwork itself than grammar and the such, and thatâs okay. If you canât play around with fanfiction, with what can you play around? Itâs fanfiction.��No life or death seriousness to it!
Generally when someone leaves me constructive criticism, it isnât constructive. It is that person telling me what they would have written in my shoes. You doing that isnât going to make me write it. Hell, if people keep it up, writers might not write anything at all.
Itâs very popular now to call writers greedy when they want positive comments or engagement with their fanworks. Itâs also popular to defend the right to criticize the author when giving a comment. I would really prefer for these people to just write their own fic. Write what they want to see in the world. Maybe itâll balance out all of the writers not writing because theyâre getting hesitant about posting their works or feel too discouraged to even write in the first place.
#writing#fanfiction#fandom#constructive criticism#seriously#i love writing#but i am beyond discouraged right now#even when i'm inspired to write#my motivation is low#i have written fics#and i'm unsure if they'll see#the light of day#if i enjoy writing#i can just write#or scribble stuff down#and keep it for me#it really sucks#i like posting#i like the engagement#but so many fic writers#are wondering if there's any point
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100 likes!
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characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that
#tim drake#bruce wayne#can i just tag the entire batfam.... this applies to all of them i think#all of them deal with their issues by putting on spandex and beating up criminals. none of them are exempt from this post#let them make bad stupid inconsiderate decisions... its funny entertaining and free#batfamily#batfam#jason todd#dick grayson#batman#dc batman#dc comics#additionally:#arthur lester#john doe#malevolent john doe#martin blackwood#jonathan sims#tim stoker#sasha james#elias bouchard#peter lukas#tma#every tma character ever actually. they all suck soso bad â¤ď¸ď¸â¤ď¸ď¸#melanie king#daisy tonner#basira hussain#georgie barker#can i tag bruce again. because like
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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this
#and by 'everyone' i mean me. im just hoping other people relate lmao#someone asks me about a thing i like and im just like h..................#been thinking about The Character for a solid 6 months+ and let me tell you. expldoeing soon#this is about ffxv btw . how am i supposed to say how much it lives in my brain . i cant think#text#1k#5k#10k#15k#20k#great googly moogly#30k#40k#50k#60k#boooy what da heeel#70k#80k#90k#will this be my first ever post to hit 100k... it remains to be seen#good lord. we did it#100k
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itâs cheaper to buy vegetables here
#robot alchemic drive#I CANT FIND THE OG POST FOR THE LIFE OF ME itâs like it got vaporized out of existence ???#and i needed this on my blog again. i just needed it#my posts
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#oh my god?????#txt#STOP FOLLOWING US!!! WE DONT POST LIKE THIS. WE POST JFK RPF#'blah hah hah and everyone clapped' don't you want to live in a world of beauty? with us?#âwhy canât i reblog this?â Because trads started going He dodged a bullet in our notifications
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that article going around abt firefox's new ad program is annoying bc it's phrased as though "mozilla has finally TURNED on its people and is SELLING YOU OUT for cold hard cash!!" when. that's not what's happening. it is specifically being implemented to discourage tracking behavior, and literally all the data they are giving to advertisers is aggregate and anonymized, which is like, the opposite of what that post wants you to worry about, lol
#the nemesis speaks#unfortunately i don't have enough energy to like. campaign about this.#it's actually a really interesting tactic to discourage invasive tracking#basically giving individual advertisers a way to measure '% effectiveness of ad' without individual info getting attached to it#whatever anyway i'm going to bed. do NOT discourse on this post or i will get your ass
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not a day goes by that i do not think about the sims 3âs disgusting moodlet icons
#to be clear. i love them very much. but wtf are like half of these#em rambles#sims#eta: the amount of discord servers that have been RUINED as a result of this post <3
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Peace and love
#pink posts#i saw a tweet that was like âi see other people's artâ --> i get discouraged#i understand that seeing art that is prettier than yours can be discouraging but why not twist that a bit?#why does it look prettier to you? is it the colors#is it the textures they used? the brushes?#study them and try to put your spin on it#and maybe you'll find your art beautiful as well
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bad youtube clickbait thumbnail that reads "I think I just had a therapy session with a DEMON???"
#gravity falls#gf nevermind all that#the book of bill#bill cipher#dipper pines#theres a tag now so im not gonna link all the context in the post anymore#i have no confidence this one is even funny i just wanted to draw them#we talk about this all the time but its endlessly funny that stump made a billford au and both of us have been like.#so mabel and dipper right? how are mabel and dipper how are they handling the situations. just fine it seems
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Why is my mom putting toothpicks in my food plz I almost ate 2 already
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tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"
#like im not gonna name names but i can think of at least 3 channels#where they stopped posting short form content and went#wait the patreon is paying my rent im no longer a slave to the algorithm gods#HELL YEAH TIME TO SPEND 5+ MONTHS PUTTING TOGETHER A 3+ HOUR VIDEO#and i eat that shit up every time
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i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.
#like majority of the time kids are not just 'being naughty'. they have big feelings inside little bodies it's a lot#also like.#it should be illegal to dye your hair fun colours if you aren't prepared for kids in public to ask if youre related to a my little pony#EDIT: the notes on this post are an absolute cesspool. i don't care about your reasons for hating kids you sound like a disney villain
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