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Words are my favorite stim toy


TalenLee
@TalenLee

Watching youths on tumblr talk about how 'fic authors do not want feedback' like what the fuck


TalenLee
@TalenLee

like I get it it's a case by case basis and some people don't want it but the idea that your default footing should be 'people do not want feedback' is bugfuck wild to me. It's weird in that particular way that few things can ever be.

It's - I feel like there's a chunk of the internet who really would just be happier if I never looked at or talked to them and yet they're posting their stuff on places with comment sections and response options and it's so strange


zandravandra
@zandravandra

it is hard to overstate just how important “people telling me what they think of my writing/art” is to me. part of the whole reason Her Majesty The Prince (and posting stories chapter by chapter in general) has been such an effective and enduring hyperfixation for me is that I get feedback as I’m writing the thing and that gives me the drive to keep going

I totally respect folks for whom this isn’t the case but good gosh y’all please keep telling people how the things they create affect you, for some of us it’s literally what keeps us going


makyo
@makyo

"But Skunks," I hear you say. "How come I never see you writing music?"

Because I only ever got feedback I paid for, mostly: that of my teachers and classmates and only in studio. I was a nonentity when I was a musician, even when I showed it off, and so I stopped making music period. Yes, this was years ago, and I was not as good at putting it out there as I have gotten with writing but the lack of feedback completely negated any fulfillment I got out of composing.


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in reply to @TalenLee's post:

i think this is called "everyone does it, so i might as well" coupled with "being terrible with taking criticism" sometimes with a side of "i know it's bad; i have seen many things a thousand times better than this, but this one is mine so that alone makes it special enough to show. but actually: don't look"

a general feeling of being abashed by ones own works' inadequacies when comparing ones work with others' while masking the circumstances endured during production of said work, since nobody else would understand those anyhow..

maybe sometimes it is like this...

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