#like i'm publishing an article

[margridarnauds]

Trying to figure out the difference between "this feeling of general apathy about work will pass" and "this feeling of general apathy about work won't pass"

[thenixkat]

Oh no, I am most certainly not reading the new 52 run for Jaime. Everything I've seen and heard about it sounds like straight ass and edge and I actually like myself.

True I'm having a terrible time with Jaime's Rebirth runs cause it's all just kinda bad as far as I'm concerned compared to how well done the 2006 run was. And there's so many decisions that come off as bad or poorly thought out. But at least it's not 'what if we rehashed this entirely but several times worse just because we're edgy now'.

Like the Graduation Day/Scarab War stuff feels like a first draft that could have used a second and third draft b4 going to print what with the 'yer retreading territory that was already done pretty solid in a way that feels vaguely insulting' vibes. And I didn't like the art style what with the weird shit it was doing with people's mouths/expressions and how distractingly shiny it was trying to be.

Also, I'm currently like 12 issues deep into the 2016 run for Jaime and it's really bad. Like? The art? Shit tier. Whitewashing half these people, many don't look like the people they're supposed to be, and somehow the worst attempt at drawing a person with freckles I've ever seen. The writing? Ass tier. Like damn yall did Dan dirty. Dirty dirty, good lords, giving the vibes of gotta rush through these fuckers to get to the version of the Blue Beetle we wanna work with in a way that feels disrespectful to ALL of the Blue Beetles. And the whole 'let's retcon Khaji Da back to being magic even tho there's two previous runs of it being alien tech oh wait oops we wanna do a Reach storyline so we'll retcon it back to being alien tech later' is... certainly something.

I know that when I pick up a Blue Beetle book I wanna see fuckin Dr. Fate (I don't, I don't care for Dr. Fate's whole thing of enslaving its host for the greater good and no one freeing poor Mr. Nelson gods damn that's horrifying how many heroes are ok with that) and an Atleantian and magic shit for like 8 issues without any of Jaime's rogue gallery showing up other than a bastard version of the Posse that feels like canon fodder based on their designs alone. (/sarcasm)

[rotzaprachim]

everything in this article is so real. i'm too tired rn to get into the weeds on depiction vs celebration but i do think s.rooney's works have been kind of a very accurate depiction of just how conservative rising 20 & 30 somethings are with gender politics- the extent to which she herself realizes it or does not remaining an open ending question. the argument of course goes this is depiction rather than celebration but it is an interesting image with the legwork rooney's given herself and gotten herself as a specifically left wing and marxist novelist, and how that is reflected (or isn't) in her works

[justthedismount]

People hate on athletes in other sports for no goddamn reason all the time and no one says a word about that but suddenly gym fans want to and it's like the fucking sky is falling

[mememan93]

killing and biting and killing and biting

[goldeunoias]

people always ask me how am I able to write so fast and well when I do research and in my head I'm like it's because I spend hours writing fanfic for my little kpop boys ASDFASDF

[wild-at-mind]

Every International Women's Day, you will find that progressive publications publish their manditory IWD article about how we should focus more on women in the global south and yet we can't because upper class white women have their pink cupcakes and their CEO jobs exploiting the working woman by being customers and crying about Barbie not getting an Oscar nomination. I always read it and think....I have really good news for you, journalist writing this, about what you could do with the article you're being paid to write!!

[carletes]

one of the best compliments i've ever gotten from someone about my academic writing is "Reading your work makes me feel really smart, like, wow! I can understand this really intelligent argument!" and it makes me so emotional because I don't think good writing should ever make you feel stupid. Like, sometimes writing is hard to parse because the concepts are difficult, and that's fine! But you should never feel like someone's writing is talking down to you, and I'm really proud that I was able to accomplish that :(

[phoenixcatch7]

Having been on several fanfic sites for several years, I can hands down GUARANTEE you that anything 'classic media' has done, fanfic has done better.

[jupitermelichios]

Today's fanfic writing adventures: reading adademic articles on human sacrifice in Gaul written in French, because dictionaries of mythology all include some weirdly specific details about how the sacrifices were carried out that I couldn't find an actual source for, and this french guy seems to be The leading expert.

I do not speak French

But that's okay, because he cites most of the authors he's drawing from in the original latin, rather than translating them

I also do not speak Latin

But after a couple of hours with translation software and vague memories of my french gcse (which included very few, if any, words relating to human sacrifice or pre-christian pagan religion) I can now confirm...

the article also doesn't cite an actual fucking source for this

[somanywips]

Not me almost crying over an email. I just want a damn article but I don't wanna pay for it please please just let me read it I promise I'll cite it correctly please please I don't wanna send this email to this random german professor like my brother in Christ why are you charging me $20 to read a 30 pages ebook on the fucking greenhouse effect this is fucked this so fucked I hate everything I'm gonna send this goddamn email and then murder every single publisher on the face of earth

[thechaoscryptid]

Must my writing resume be "professional" and "optimized"

Is it not enough to say "am write goblin, trade money for words"

[mistystarshine]

Hi, I saw your most recent post about not feeling great about your writing and I can't express how quickly I jumped to arms to defend your writing. Just wanted to let you know that I've been binge reading all of your CSM works on AO3 for the last couple of days. Your characterization and found family basically defines my standard for good CSM fanfiction. I understand the doubt that worms its way in, and if you need, please take any break you need. You have such an amazing depository of pre-existing writing that validates you. I personally am going to enjoy going back and re-reading them as many times as I need to get that amazing found family fix. Thank you for putting your work out into the world!

Thank you! <3 I've been having a pretty difficult morning, and hearing that means a lot. I was stressing over if I could ever get published, or if my writing is stuff that people would only be willing to read if it's free, and it's just... a lot.

I'm not planning on taking a break any time soon though! I'm not updating until I finish another chapter, but the next chapter of A Beautiful Star is complete (which, that fic is getting bumped up to 8 chapters) and I'm 1k into the next chapter of At The End of the River. Neither are very exciting chapters in my opinion, but I hope people like them regardless.

[theplantbish]

A while back a coworker of mine got promoted to a manager position, and I got promoted to his old position. Back when he had this job he was always super busy, he was swamped with work every single day, but now that I've been doing this job for several months, most of my work days have been pretty chill

For a while I wondered why? How? But after watching him work, after attending several team meetings lead by him I've realized that he's just a really fucking slow worker. He gets stuck on details that don't really matter, he goes over things several times when everyone else is ready to move on to the next topic and he rambles on and on about things that don't really matter

I don't wanna say that I'm a better worker than he is, buuuuuuut the quality of our work is on the same level and I get things done 10 times faster so..... 🤷‍��️

[tunnaa-unnaa]

Important additional context for the article:

[heartofstanding]

So B M. Is Cron's reinterpretation of Berwick in Margaret of Anjou and the Lancaster March on London, 1461 incorrect?

Okay, I sourced my answer on Berwick from B. M. Cron's more recent Margaret of Anjou and the Men Around Her (History and Heritage Publishing 2021) because you (and/or some other anon) sent me like 5 asks in less than 12 hours so I wanted to quickly answer them since I still have a whole lot of asks from a few months ago.

Cron, in her article, "Margaret of Anjou and the Lancaster March on London" argues that Berwick was not ceded to the Scots before the Second Battle of St. Albans (17 February 1461) and that it was after the Battle of Towton (29 March 1461) that was ceded. In Cron's Margaret of Anjou and the Men Around Her, she places it after both battles but does not discuss the confusion around its date. I did not know that your question was really about what Cron says about the date Margaret agreed to cede Berwick in her article so I didn't know to check the article or the dates.

In short, Cron's reinterpretation is not that Margaret never agreed to cede Berwick to the Scotts, only that she agreed to that after the Second Battle of St. Albans and the Battle of Towton, when the Lancastrian situation was desperate. It is not incorrect, it is just that I didn't know that was what you were asking about.