#no accounting for taste

[pacific-rimbaud]

One thing about you is that your stories are so easy to love. Whenever you mention anything like "oh my writing style is not for everyone" I get so confused. Who are these unpleased people? They are so unrelatable. Pack them in the same category of non-chocolate lovers.

I've been pretty fortunate to have skipped a lot of direct-to-inbox criticism, except for my Dramione works. Sometimes people find my work difficult to read, or don't enjoy the over-the-top Victorian descriptive backgrounds. Mostly it's the miscommunication in laoha, including the farcical instances, and Hermione's characterization in both laoha and One and Done. And it's fine! laoha is a deeply flawed project that I learned a great deal from, and one of those lessons was: turn off comment emails. I think all those of us who write for public consumption can do is distance ourselves from sources of unsolicited criticism. I don't go into reader spaces in fandom. I will never search for my fics or pseud on Tiktok. I should never look at my own stuff on Goodreads. I don't get kudos or comments directly to my email. If I was a traditionally published writer, I would not read reviews. Unsolicited kindness, on the other hand, is priceless. It makes me happy to hear that you find my work easy to love. I feel a lot of love and compassion and care for my characters and their stories when I'm writing them, so that's incredibly validating. Thank you so much. <3

[disgruntledseagull]

always funny when someone comments "this is the best X I have seen in my life" on something I was just thinking was mid at best

[tinyangryeddie]

no accounting for taste (i missed these guys, how are they doing?) ((can i also ask about evan needs a father?? jade?? 🥺))

I answered about Evan needs a father here!! Go look, friend!

No Accounting for Taste?? They are doing fine?? They're having some issues with their personalities (aka they don't have fully fleshed out ones) but I'mma post a later snip that you haven't read and who knows if it's gonna end up in the actual finished piece. Or if there will be a finished piece lol

(MY EYES JUST POPPED THIS GOOGLE DOC IS 108 PAGES)

Okay I know this is a lot of names but bear with me I like this snip and also it includes lesbians which is your jam.

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Gil points, but sees Mara and Tory heading toward them. “My friends are just—”

“You must be Harry!” Mara all but yells, despite being only a few feet away. Tory shushes her, and Mara waves them off, and it leads to both of them almost stumbling over before Harry takes a fast step forward and catches Mara at the arm. It’s almost comedic, the way both Mara and Tory stare up at him, like their knight in shining armor, as if there weren't several solid objects within reaching distance that could have saved them instead. 

“Oh my god, thank you,” Mara mumbles, and Tory nods their agreement. 

“No problem, you okay?” Harry answers, concern in his eyes. Mara laughs, high and breathily, and Gil logs this for later. Neither of them are allowed to make fun of him for how he is around Harry. Never. 

“We’re fine!” Tory answers for her, and then shoves a hand out into Harry’s chest. “I’m Tory!”

Harry takes their hand, then claps the other on top. “It’s so nice to meet you, I’m Harry!” He pulls Tory closer to him and smiles warmly. 

Mara chuckles, offering her own hand, but also asking, “You’re not a hugger?”

“Oh god,” Harry says, looking to Gil. “I actually really am,” and then Mara is pulling him into one of her tight, squeeze until you feel connected at the soul hugs, and Gil sighs. 

Alright, so. There might be some further swooning today. He wasn’t expecting the platonic swooning, but honestly, he should have. Luckily, that’s his favorite kind. 

Harry breaks from a second hug from Tory and turns to him, shining, dopey smile and fingers stretched out and wiggling. 

“What’re you, gonna tickle me? Please tell me tickle wars are not coming back into style here,” Gil says, creeping backward while Harry laughs.

“Shit, do you remember those?” The wiggles get more aggressive, and his smile turns devious. “I used to fucking demolish you.” 

“You did not,” Gil argues, shrinking further back until he’s backed up to a tree. “You cannot be as competitive as you were when you were fifteen.” 

“Oh, I certainly can. I can be worse, actually,” Harry says, closing the distance between them until Gil can feel his breath, until his hips sidle along front of Gil’s and Gil wants to be pressed into the bark of this tree until he leaves an imprint. “Whaddya think?” Harry asks, and Gil stares up at him, completely at his mercy. 

“Yeah,” Gil says, no idea what it means, and then someone yells behind them. Gil sees Jasmine and Therese, waving and walking toward them in the parking lot, and Harry moves naturally away from him, but Gil still feels plastered to the tree. My god.

[lrandconkdors]

Perona’s idea of cuteness is as dumb as I remember it being. The giant jelly bean with bulging eyes and no visible mouth feels visually off-putting, the last thing he needs for his image is to be relegated to standing around menacingly. A detail I forgot was that Kumacy’s voice is allegedly shockingly deep and that’s what Pero hates, but come On. chile have you never heard of gap moe

[starlightpixels]

Looking back hatefully @ at this one person who told me the coconut dr. Pepper tastes bad

[greencheekconure27]

Trying to read "The Fool " by Christopher Moore.

It's supposed to be King Lear narrated from the perspective of the Fool, which sounded interesting, but so far I'm not impressed. It's just...tiresome. I usually love snarky tricksters but this POV suffers from the "Haha wicked and ironic comment bro.Now say something unique and beautiful" syndrome. Please give your character personality traits besides cynicism. He's not even funny. At least make the guy funny. Shakespeare's Fool was funny.Literally none of the characters have much to make me care about them so far.

On top of that the narration is a mish-mash of anachronisms that I guess are supposed to be postmodern but are just annoying to read. And there's an implication of a post-apocalyptic society ("Mericans" burned the world? Really? How very original .🙄) but also the author explicitly sets it in thirteenth century Britain in the prologue and the Fool doesn't really have enough mystique about him to have visions of the future 🤷‍♀️.

I'm sorry but if it's satire it needs to be wittier and more poignant because so far it reads like the script one of those cheap parody movies where the author didn't engage with the original material beyond pop cultural osmosis and just added sex jokes to make up for it.

Maybe it'll pick up.I'm waiting.

[thattrainssailed]

Coffee theory is so fucking stupid and I hate it. But unfortunately part of growing up is realising that some people find insanely stupid concepts extremely appealing.

[clowningachievement]

wasn't deadpool supposed to be the 4th wall breaker? or was he just the one that could actually get people to laugh

Wait which fourth wall?

If you're talking about Zelda, that hardly seems comparable! We are entirely different genres of media! It's not my fault if he just so happens to be fictional in my universe.

Besides, I have broken the fourth wall a few times before, though yes typically less obnoxiously than certain characters from rival companies.

[canisalbus]

A friend of mine sent me your latest post and I couldn't stop thinking about how perfectly Vasco would fit into the role of a coat of arms supporter. It got to the point that I just sat down and made a mock-up of the idea; turns out actually, both of them do a great job at it, together. Literally made this account to share the discovery (Extra funny points for them fitting the original colour scheme)

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[stevishabitat]

🤣🤣🤣

"fuck you my child is completely fine" your child watches silence in the library and forest of the dead for FUN

[contamination-zone]

Does anyone want to shoot me some outfits to put him in?

[avishkari-izzet]

Honestly, as someone who has been in Izzet for a good decade now, I think more Izzet need to come to terms with the fact that there are really only 2 reasons why someone would join this guild:

1. They love explosions, but want to survive them (most people survive Izzet explosions. Rakdos explosions, however, are usually lethal)

2. They want to fuck one of the two guildmasters (Between Ral and Niv-Mizzet, who could blame them)

Personally, I'm of the opinion that recruitment efforts would go better if we started putting up posters with Niv-Mizzet pin ups on them, but when I tried to suggest that they kicked me out of the meeting room.

[thatruperson]

Oh hey, I made this post a little over a year ago! Proof that sometimes I'm funny.

Ed, holding two pieces of bread up on either side of Izzy’s face: What are you?

Izzy: …a bottom…

Scene zooms out and shows him in between Ed, with the bread, and Stede holding him from the back.

Izzy, with a tear in his eye: …a bottom sandwich.  

[akiacia]

the things that come back

[greencheekconure27]

Watched Rebel Moon out of morbid curiosity yesterday and I gotta say that's one of the worst sci-fi (ish) movies I've seen, on par with the Tomorrow War.And not even in a fun way, because despite all the fancy special effects and big fights it managed to be so boring the only thing that kept me watching was keeping track of which bit was ripped from which franchise(without any understanding of what made these movies and TV shows good). Incredibly shallow and unoriginal.Paint-by-numbers and they didn't even get the colours right.

The characters made me feel nothing except irritation at how cliché they are.The dialogue is godawful and the "deep" stock sentences really aren't helping. The pacing is bad.There is no plot.

It's even got a magic native American.🤦‍♀️

Also someone please tell the guy playing the pilot to never do accents again he was fucking unbearable.

And they're planning to make more of it.Please don't.Ever.

[myattman]

Imagine, if you will, blue team sitting at a bar in a club

(context: a while ago I was listening to my spotify library in alphabetical order and could Hear this conversation as I read through this string of song titles)