Watching youths on tumblr talk about how 'fic authors do not want feedback' like what the fuck
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
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
"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.
The page of my webcomic that got the most feedback was the one where I announced it’s cancellation due to the artist quitting because the only comments he ever got were from a troll who kept harrassing him with throwaway Twitter accounts.
I found a new artist but too little too late people!
