#constructive criticism is valid

[readingrobin]

God why do I always gravitate towards things with the most toxic, hellscape fandoms? I just wanna look at fanart without stumbling into a dang flame war.

[victusinveritas]

Comic by Shami Stovall on Twitter.

[mars-ipan]

so funny to me how ppl on tumblr will read a post that says, within the post, SEVERAL times, “hey this isn’t super well-thought out discussion and shouldn’t be treated as such i’m just sharing an individual opinion and my word should not be taken as fact” and then refuse to understand that whether they agree or disagree with the op

[cosmicjoke]

https://www.tumblr.com/cosmicjoke/757516383076679680/alright-well-first-of-all-id-like-to-say-that

While I understand both Anon's objections and your explanation for the way it is like it is, I gotta admit I'm getting tired of Levi's unending suffering. It's true recovery is not linear, the relapses are fine, but the amount of external shit happening to him is too much too. I really need him to stop suffering. Preferably with a happy ending, but really, at this point, I'd welcome just an ending. I get a little depressed/ anxious with each update when I see there's no final chapter yet, and thus no foreseeable end to the constant whumping. :( I may have met my Angst ceiling.

You're free to stop reading any time you want. It's not like anyone is holding a gun to your head and "forcing" you to read my story. If it's really causing you to feel "depressed" and "anxious", again, it's your responsibility to look out for your own mental health, not mine.

And I'm sorry, but this much bad shit can and does happen to people in real life. If you don't want to read about it, that's fine, and if you don't have the patience to wait for me to get to his eventual recovery, again, you don't have to read it. But I'm not going to tailor my story to your specific needs, I'm afraid.

My answer to that anon ask wasn't a free invite for people to just come in and dump on my story, by the way. I said "constructive criticism". Telling me you get depressed reading my story and telling me you think it's "too much" what Levi is suffering through isn't constructive, it's just criticism.

Stories have to have catalysts for why things happen. Otherwise, there's nothing to hold the readers interest and nothing to drive the story forward. There has to be conflict, whether that's internal or external. There's been maybe 3 or 4 external events that have contributed to Levi's internal issues in my story, so I don't know what you're talking about with there being too much "external shit". Most of the external things that have happened to Levi in my story have been a catalyst for his other mental and physical problems compounding. One is necessary for explaining the other. Both his mental and physical illnesses in my story are the result of one another, being compounded by one another. It's rare for either mental or physical illnesses to exist in a vacuum. They always have a high rate of comorbidity.

Like I said, if you don't enjoy the story anymore, then I don't know why you're still reading it. It's marked as "angst" and "heavy angst", and "hurt/comfort". It has all the appropriate tags. You know what you're getting into, so complaining about the dark content and saying it's "too much" and claiming that it's triggering you in some way isn't valid. That's a you problem.

I think your issue may be that you think a happy ending requires Levi to be fully healed from his trauma, but the reality of trauma is, you never really get rid of it. You learn to live with it, but it never disappears completely. So if you want or expect there to be some miraculous moment of recovery for Levi where he simply no longer suffers from any of the issues I've presented in the story ever again, then I'm afraid you're going to be sorely disappointed, and you should probably just drop it, because I can't and won't give you what you want.

This is meant to be a realistic depiction of chronic mental and physical illness, and in reality, it's often the case that those things remain lifelong problems for people. You can't just hand-wave them away, and I refuse to do so just because my story might make some readers uncomfortable.

[angelic-waffles]

My favorite idiot gay wizards

[tolerateit]

i try my best to stay away from any negativity on the internet but sometimes it happens that i read a couple of comments and god.... the hate taylor gets has no limits and i know it isn't a rare case but with the age of the internet it's on a very huge scale.

and i know extreme fame brings extreme hate, but honestly if i was taylor and happened, by any means, to read the amount of vile things people write about me, I'll never leave my house. and I'm not talking about the constructive criticism, but the straight up bullying. yes she's a very powerful and rich person but why can't people understand that this doesn't numb the feelings we all are born with?

and at this point, it isn't at all about taylor but also about her. and by that i mean, people are so MAD that a woman has this amount of power and control and that millions of young women would just have her back no matter. that she doesn't fuck up publicly as much as people want her to.. that there are no clear evidence of her failure or her missteps. yes, she isn't perfect, yet people have not enough/actual/undoubtable "proof" she is a villain. and that's the MAIN reason they hate her this much.

the fact that her success is attributed to possibly anything except hardwork or talent...... i don't support everything taylor does but she's not the worst out there by any means and... she has great mental strength i honestly can't imagine accidentally coming across the vile shit i see written about her.

I think it has a lot to do with the need to categorize people as either 100% good or 100% bad. I think I said this before but as a long time swiftie, the speed at which her fame skyrocketed in the recent two years is very reminiscent of the 1989 era and it's lowkey anxiety inducing for me as a fan who has no personal stakes in her career/life, can't even imagine what it's like for her 😵‍💫

[letstrywritingmaybe]

I’m requesting yet again for yall not to leave me comments, I don’t need them and I don’t even necessarily want them. Especially if you’re going to question me and I don’t know you. I don’t care to defend myself. I hate conversing through comments, yeah I know it’s a thing but I don’t like it. I prefer messaging on tumblr or even an ask.

My reputation as a Shinichi hater is alive and well. Good, cause it’s true and I won’t deny it. I’ve been trying to escape this ship for years now and I still haven’t. I’ve said a million times I’m just here for Shiho, give me a better option and I’ll jump ships in a heartbeat! I just can’t get over how cruel he was to her, and how he tried to get into her good graces by pretending to be nice. Plus the canon ship propaganda is so tiring. Sure recently we’ve gotten some stellar moments and I try to focus on that, but I just think my queen deserves better. She deserves someone who can and will love her loudly without making her feel like they settled. Yes his actions speak louder than his words and it’s clear he cares about her, but then I get stupid shit about the canon ship and I’m just like really? This again? Give me a reason to root for them! Or at the very least let my queen live and let her move on. I could care less about him. Everyone fucking loves him already, where’s the love for my queen? I swear most fics go on about how perfect he is and how she’s the problem and how much she needs him, miss me with that bs. I get that in canon, and I’m so over it.

Now excuse me while I continue to write CoAi fics that end happily

Update: while I’m here ranting on my blog. I truly don’t understand why we continue to romanticize the idea of him being an idiot and expecting them to be closer when he didn’t fucking ask or make things clear. The amount of times I’ve heard my irl peeps complain about not knowing where they stand with someone cause it was never clarified is annoying. I don’t want that in fiction too even if I do prefer things to be realistic! Either let my queen make a move and be like this is what I want with you or have him say the actual words to get them together! What’s with all this not knowing and not being on the same page even though you’re supposed to know each other best??? Idk man. I just find it ooc for her to be open with her feelings so I think he has to be the one to spell it out. But then I read this fic and I’m like it’s well written sure but why is it my queen’s fault that she thinks they would be better off apart? That’s very in character to me. And yes him having a problem with it also makes sense, but then to have him go around and play the victim and be like why don’t you understand me???? Like what???? Boy you fucking didn’t say shit! And okay sure you can say she avoided him cause she would, but then why wouldn’t he be clear when they have the actual convo like why make her guess? She’s going to second guess cause of course she would! And that just makes it a whole mess again! Cause now he’s upset with her and she doesn’t get it and he still isn’t being straightforward. It’s 2024, is it really that hard to get a real confession out of him? Must it be coerced like whatever bs happened with the canon ship? Does he really have to lose her to finally go after her?? Cause at that point I low key fucking wish he would. I just really freaking hate that it’s always her fault. Why the fuck is it always her fault for not catering to him? I’m so annoyed cause I like the writing style but it’s exhausting reading this bs. I want out of this fandom. I really want to be done. I care way too fucking much and it’s not healthy at all for me.

[art-validation]

Hello fellow artists!

Art is hard, and self doubt and art block are NOT helping at all, and we all have to deal with it.

I'm here to help with that

Feel free to tag me in your or a friend's art if you want some validation. I'll also give art ideas, give constructive criticism, and proofread comics. (Please don't send me NSFW, an actual human being is behind this, not a bot.)

Tags I use: #art validation #art ideas #constructive criticism #proofreading

Don't be so hard on yourself, you're amazing

[www98vikitoo]

Am i doing this right🙈

[en-sell-uh-dus]

Does this story need to be published ? Is it not enough to have it written down in my laptop?

Does this story need to be written down? Is it not enough to have it simply live in my head?

[wholives-whodies-whotellstory]

alright Tumblr I have to share my possibly incredibly controversial opinion

also I just grabbed a random tier list pls don't judge

no I am not making any mistakes and if you like orange starbursts

no you don't

[kay-southpaw]

AI passed the Turing test? I'm proposing a new test!

It's called the Professor test and it applies to large language models, since, y'know, we're carrying the spirit of the Turing test.

You are a scholar/university student/apprentice, etc. You want to ask AI advice about the topic you are researching. It must give you a valuable answer that is 100% true and only references REAL SOURCES. Real laws, real historical events, real studies, etc. The more of the topics the AI passes, the better it is.

The topics: - History - Philosophy - Literature - Science (physics, chemistry, all the topics usamericans learn together as "science"... I dunno the rest by heart, I learned them separately) - Law/a court case - Art/Art history - Politics - Programming/computer science - Engineering/mechanics - 1 joker topic [translation, health advice/dietary advice, architecture, fitness planning, how to repair stuff, relationship advice, anything that gives ADVICE and STEP BY STEP guiding]

[neverendingford]

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[simplegenius042]

honestly

[mothalaalee]

farts are cache equivalent of living organisms

[ouijathicc]

People nowadays be like: “Nono you don’t understand this 4 year old’s drawing is cringy! It’s cringe! Yes I have to say something how dare this 4 year old be cringe!”

Like bro shut up, cry more.