#yeah aus have artistic liscence and i myself give a lot of leeway to others if the concept is interesting or the writing is good. but like
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i'm a chronic perfectionist + i only feel comfortable sharing most of my stuff with my closest friends. i appreciate their support so so much but like. after a certain point i feel a more critical and informed eye would help settle some of my concerns r.e. the accuracy and relevance to canon. i just don't want to talk a big game and then come out with something incredibly ooc or like, blatantly failing at metacommentary because i'm missing a big-picture connection (which i will admit that's one of my weaknesses) and there's only so much i can shrug off with 'oh, it doesn't matter, i'm just writing for fun!' because that's a lie. i care about this and it has to be good. grrr.
orz i need to talk about my writing with someone who has actually read homestuck
#why do i even bother trying to do the cool and disaffected irony poisoned blogger thing we all know i'm a huge dork who loves to complain#unfortunately rereading the comic isn't helping all that much in this context bc i'm mostly talking about AUs here#yeah aus have artistic liscence and i myself give a lot of leeway to others if the concept is interesting or the writing is good. but like#i still want my stuff to tie meaningfully back to canon and conciously choosing to diverge from canon makes me sweat!#and i have such high standards that its really hard to like. feel like i'm making good choices here.#i don't want to fall into the same pitfalls i critique others for. it'd make me feel like even more of a hypocritical jerk#wowww youre trying to make up for projecting too much transgender sadboy shit on dirk by making him sooo edgy nice work#wowww you think blatantly fawning over jake will suffice instead of actually writing anything that makes him likable#wowww your portrayal of jane is an obvious reaction to her villification but youve just made her a useless third wheel to yaoi good job bud#wowwww your roxy is... wowww shes so boring we have nothing to say about her. boooo.#ughh! sorry. i really hate complaining like this because it makes me feel like i'm all talk. but i hope i'm making an understandable point#also talking about it made me feel a little better maybe so there's that
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