#i'd rather be writing essays of fun meta and analysis

[angelsdean]

I kind of get your point but also all art and creativity should be open to criticism. As an artists you have to have a thick skin. You can't go around expecting people to only have positive opinions. Negative and Positive deserve to be shared and as an artist you decide what you ignore. If I read a bad fic and choose to share why I dislike it the author can choose to ignore me, realize what the target audience is or isn't, or take the criticism to improve something.

People sharing negative criticism also helps audiences choose what they consume and that has value. It's like restaurant reviews you need to see the good and the bad where people say "lacked salt for my taste" to help make a decision.

full stop if you need other ppl's opinions to make your own decision on whether you should be reading something then you need to develop better skills. someone else's opinion shouldn't hold that much weight. just look at the thing yourself and decide.

i'm not going to get into a debate over this. but there is a time and place for criticism and there's a difference between offering someone constructive criticism to improve and leaving unnecessary mean comments or publicly dragging someone's work for the "bit" or to seem funny-ironic-whatever on tumblr dot com. reblogging someone's art or writing just to dunk on it is not okay. people in fandom are not making these things as a job, it's a fun hobby! i've been in professional and academic writing and art critique workshops. there is always a basic level of respect given when critiquing people's work. that etiquette is not often found online where people will tear apart someone's work under the guise of "constructive criticism." fandom artists and writers did not sign up for a workshop, they're not sharing their work for unsolicited criticism. they're doing it for fun as an act of sharing something they made with others who have similar interests !!!

if you can't appreciate they act of creation as a form of connection, joy, and love between people and can only think of how to tear others down because your need to "critique" something is so great then idk what to tell you. (also. what to "consume"? what has "value'? art and writing and really any creative work is not for consumption. things made of joy and creative expression and that are not actively harming anyone inherently have value)

anyways, treat people with basic respect and kindness. it's really not that hard. and, age old wisdom, if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. if something is not "your taste" that's fine! no one is saying you're not allowed to have preferences. but you can just, quietly close out of a tab or scroll past an art post you don't like instead of feeling the need to comment your opinion on everything.

[antiv3nom]

5, 7, 13 for writer asks?

hey gnu!!! thanks for the ask as always :D

5. what have you improved on most this year?

i think that's hard for me to tell, my writing has been so sporadic this year that it's strange to try and compare what i've written, but i'd like to think i've gotten better at just sort of...going with The Vibe and seeing where it takes me, rather than planning everything to a t

7. what's the story or fic that you're most excited to work on or share next year?

well i'd like to think i'm gonna finish up this personal writing that i'm doing right now soon, because once that's done i'm actually gonna do more like...meta analysis essays, which is really really exciting :D it's a direction i havent taken nearly as much as straight up fanfic so im looking forward to it

ALSO!!! man one day i do really wanna keep writing the sinbed bread fic (which has actually been renamed to heirloom wheat) so im hoping thatll happen eventually, but like...itll happen when it happens, yk?

13. what story haunts you when you try to sleep at night?

RIGHT NOW it's a story i have not mentioned at all on here i believe and want to keep a secret bc i think im gonna start writing it like. today. which is fun <3

but the other thing i'm thinking of has been a one piece spiritfarer au, which...i could probably talk about my various different directions i might take that for a long time, honestly. i really like the concept and hope i can at least draw something for it soon

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