I Hate It When I Talk Wistfully About The Ancient World And Then People Are Likeyou Wouldnt Survive Back

I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

I love this post. It’s so important.

It is not constructive criticism to complain that an author isn’t catering to your personal preferences. There are plenty of people who might not want to have children and want to see their beliefs / practices better represented in the media they do have control over: their fanfiction. Isn’t it enough that compulsory heteronormativity and the misguided belief that children are the end-goal or pinnacle of romantic relationships are just about everywhere in mainstream media? Maybe someone different from you wants to feel seen and heard for once.

Let people have control over their own creative expression. How would you feel if someone who is child-free comments on a fic of yours saying they wished SessKag didn’t have children? Keep that to yourself. There might also be plenty of reasons why people don’t want to write smut. Sometimes that reason might even  be: I just didn’t feel like it. And you have to accept that it’s valid too.

I think readers forget sometimes that while they are certainly allowed to have their opinions on a fic, they don’t have to express that to the author. If you don’t like how a fic ended or if you wished you could’ve seen your very personal tastes catered to, by all means write your own fic. We all write for personal fulfilment—your favourite authors included. I guarantee you will be similarly frustrated when people come to your works whinging about these little details that THEY want, but you don’t want. I wish people would be more mindful of the kinds of comments they leave. 

One thing I haven't seen Inuyasha fanfic authors talk about (probably because they don't want to seem ungrateful for comments) is the very weird amount of comments from readers wanting the ship you just wrote about, be it in a oneshot or completed chapter story - to get married and have babies.

I get wanting your ship to be together, forever, but I have to wonder why there's this demand. Not every fanfiction should end the same way, and Babies Ever After might not fit with the natural stopping point the story has reached. Its pretty darn disheartening to finish writing a fic only to get a comment wanting the same tired thing of you to 'write more' not because of any loose plot threads, but because they want to see your ship have kids.

Again, I'm not ungrateful for the comments received, I'm just putting it out there that if you are a reader, to maybe focus on what you enjoyed in the existing story you just read - not suggesting to the author what you personally wanted to see happen.

There’s happiness and then there’s realizing that the last ten pages of a scientific paper are just the bibliography.

Trust me when I say that blocking people who annoy you, even if you agree with some of the points they make, is the best thing you can do for yourself.

You don't have to read that long-ass lecture about why the thing you dislike is Wrong And Evil Actually And Anyone Who Says Otherwise Is A Pedo; you don't have to put up with a 10K dissertation about why anyone who thinks XYZ is okay should be avoided because that's a "red flag."

Just block the twerps and move on. They're masturbating into the void and you don't need to participate in any bukkake you don't want to.

Now that bethesda jokes is going around again can somebody revive that one something or other forum post where somebody found out the way they made vehicles move was just like putting a train on top of an invisible naked default sprite and having it run real fast

no more ‘specks of green’ or ‘flakes of blue and gold’ just brown eyes, deep dark brown eyes like soil, brown eyes that are so completely dark you can’t differentiate between the pupil, brown eyes that are just brown and only brown and are not forced to ‘be prettier’