Kath - 16 - she/her - mostly podcasts and musicals. Number one blupjeans stan. Prev: aliensinflowercrowns. Check out my writing on ao3 @aliensinflowercrowns.
“Depression turns you into a series of nouns, without the adjectives and without the verbs. You don’t remember where you misplaced your descriptions, your actions … You become: bed, shower, socks, coffee, keys, obligations.”— A Series of Nouns
Comic book Clint is everything to me
i am absolutely dragging myself through grading my last 6 papers, it is 9:30pm, and one of my favorite students has just used the phrase “Satan and his Gucci gang” in his milton essay
Give Hector an A
some of y’all have never gone to make a happy birthday card, and thought “i don’t need to trace it. i know how big letters should be,” and begun with a big-ass H, followed by a big-ass A and… oh, no! oh, god! ok, all right. real skinny P with a high hump, and then we’ll put the second P below the hump of that first P, sort of like a motorcycle sidecar situation. and now you have no room for the Y, so you do a kind of curled-up noodle Y. block letters and cursive look good together. and then you go to write “Birthday” and you totally forget the lesson you just learned with “Happy.” you’re like, “yeah, but the past is the past. big-ass B. surely more letters will fit in the same space,” and it really shows.
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AO3 as a site isn’t really set up for concrit because comments are posted publicly. It’s a bit easier on FF.net because there’s the private messaging feature.
If your beta isn’t doing it for you, I’d suggest starting a fic writing group. Create your own space. Start up a Discord server and invite people, put it out there to anyone who wants to join, whatever way you like to work it.
That said, I’m sure something like this does already exist. Any ideas, folks? Let’s help them not reinvent the wheel ;)
Hi guys, I love concrit, if you ever want to concrit[*] my work please don’t hold back in the AO3 comments section. Failing that, of course you can message/ask me here.
[*] Concrit IS “I’ve noticed you use the word ‘sway’ a lot” or “The correct Brazilian Portuguese for that phrase would be….”
Concrit is NOT “WRITE LUCIO WEARING THE SNOW FOX SKIN, YOU COWARD” (ok, this is a fictional example)
But I think we also need to foster a culture where public concrit is productive and respectful again; it’s called “constructive criticism”, after all. That means it’s helpful, specific and something that can be actioned. Advice that is offered with consideration for its delivery and reception. For some reason this went way out of style somewhere between the transition from FFNET to LJ. Let’s bring it back again. Nobody is perfect. This will enable other readers and writers to understand not only the shared lessons learned, but that it’s okay to be a learner.
Fail fast, learn quickly. It’s 2019, let’s be braver and kinder. I have faith in us.
What @bellsyblue said - this is the concrit I could accept and cherish. Actually helpful and delivered with respect. The reason I never invited concrit on my works so far is because people tend to take it as an invitation to rip your hard work to shreds. Outside of beta'ing, the “criticism” I have received was never helpful, never applicable, and only served to show off the reviewer’s supposed superiority.
Point out where I slipped into the wrong tense however, or used an outdated figure of speech, how I can improve the flow of narrative or where my tagging system lacks and I’m your bitch.
Exactly, it’s an education for readers/reviewers, too. It’s a skill!
Some people genuinely weren’t taught that sharing a subjective opinion is different from providing concrit. We can’t constructively act on opinion unless you qualify why you think it would improve the story.
It’s fine to share an opinion, especially if it’s just “ahmahgahd I loved this, especially the way he– and then the moment they– ahhhhhhhhhhhh–”
But if your intention is to help us improve something tell us WHAT and WHY, e.g. “Just a suggestion, if you want to enhance the pay-off of the long journey to-date between these characters, I think the wedding was a key opportunity for an emotional climax/catharsis. Cutting away early didn’t give us the opportunity to see them testify their commitment in front of witnesses, which we know from their personalities would have been a difficult and moving moment. Since we didn’t get to see that here, I hope we’ll get something in the future parts for that pay-off. If not, just something to keep in mind for future, but thank you for giving us this!”
Approach it like you’re having a conversation with a friend you respect and are fond of, so I personally try to balance humility, encouragement, affection and advice. They’re not obliged to take my advice. They’ve given me a free gift. And I want to enable them to make one even better next time, if they find my thoughts useful.
Leaving concrit also makes me a better writer. It makes me think about what I liked and why, what I thought worked well or what I would do differently. I learn with every review how to do it better. But sometimes I just say ‘THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL’ and that’s all that needs be said.
It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”
ok ok ok i know overwatch does have its problems but imho thats mostly bc they set themselves up as being Diverse and good for Representation. if theyd never have that pretence id be fucking losing my mind bc what an amazing prank to pull on gamers. first they take Waifu Tracer (whos ass people were arguing about before the game even CAME OUT LOL) and made her gay and then they took captain america 2.0 every white supremacists fav and made HIM gay too like the fucking shenanigans. the drama of it.
omg - old man gansey
lmfao - let me father adam, okay?
ily - i love yogurt
rofl - ronan’s oil feelings lit
mcm - missing cabeswater monday
idc - i dreamt chainsaw
sob - scrying only bowl
ttyl - the trees yelling latin
omfg - oh my fucking glendower!
halleregina
Okay now that I’ve finally quit Denny’s let me tell you guys about the bizarre fucking otherworld it is
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I can’t believe I forgot
