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If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it

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DEMI-ACE COMICS: “TOUCH AVERSION”

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I'm a major in writing. This is what I study and plan to do for a living, but my fanfiction is a passion project I do it because I like it and it's fun. I don't do it tor critique or to better my writing. I do it to share some fun ideas with others for free in my spare time outside of all the writing I have to do for my degree. Positive comments make me feel happy and want to continue writing even when I'm feeling a little tired or overwhelmed. I shouldn't have to ask you to not tell me that you didn't enjoy the free work I put out there for fun. While writing is my field of study fanfiction is not my job and I do not treat it as such. I do not want nor need someone telling me all the parts of my story that were bad. There is nothing you nor a fanfic author gains from your negative comments. It only makes people not want to put into the community, hurts feelings, and makes you look like a dick. Be nice to your content creators because they don't have to do this and it's not one they're being compensated either.

I'm a writer who is fine with receiving critical comments even when I didn't remember specifically say so. Some other writers don't want to receive critical comments. That's fine. No unsolicited crit is not a universal norm, so any writer who cares a lot about whether they get critical comments should say so, whether that's saying please do or please don't.

You know, I’ve got a fourteen-year-old nephew who plays the violin.

He’s been playing it since fifth grade, and he’s going to be a freshman in high school next year. He’s at that age where boys are usually fucking assholes. Worse than that, he’s a nerdy boy, who’s into a whole slew of geeky things, which means he could so very easily fall prey to the Nice Guy attitude, but he doesn’t.

He’s a good kid. But because he’s so much like me, and has been influenced heavily by me his entire life, he’s a bit of a perfectionist.

On Monday, we went to an open house for parents for the high school he’s hoping to get into this coming year, and they had their orchestra playing. After their performance, as we were walking to the next section of the tour, he reiterated a point that I’ve heard him voice a few times before.

It’s hard for him to just sit there and listen to other people play the violin now. When he’s listening to the performance, all he can hear are the missed notes or if someone is scratchy or off-key or if they’re a beat ahead or a beat behind, etc. 

He isn’t some virtuoso by any means, he’s just a fourteen-year-old that plays the violin, yet because he studies it, he automatically mentally critiques the performance.

I think we, as writers, can all relate to that. No matter how well we write ourselves, by being in this arena, we are automatically more sensitive to the mistakes others make. In fact, you don’t even have to be a writer; those who read regularly are prone to the same thing.

The thing is, though, I didn’t have to tell my nephew not to mock the students who were performing at the open house. I didn’t have to tell him not to criticize them or make fun of them, I didn’t have to tell him to lower his voice so they wouldn’t hear, and I definitely didn’t have to stop him from going up to them to criticize their performances to their face. It was something that was automatically understood; those things are impolite, and should he engage in any of those behaviors, he’d get in trouble for them.

And here’s the really important bit. Are you ready? 

Not a single one of those amateur performers had to preface that performance by saying, “Please don’t.” 

It was just automatically understood that their audience wouldn’t, because it’s not a thing you do in polite society when you are given something for free by people who are not professionals. Especially when–this is also an important bit–you are also not a professional critic in any shape, form, or fashion.

My nephew waited until we’d walked away from the orchestra, where they weren’t in danger of hearing before he even began to discuss the very broad concept of how he critiques performances now because he’s in orchestra.

Somehow, without me having to drill it into his head countless times, this fourteen-year-old boy grasps the concept that you should not go up to someone, out of the blue, and criticize their performance just because you heard (or in the case of a writer: saw) their mistakes. He isn’t a professional, nor is he a teacher. He hasn’t been asked, he’s still learning himself, and they don’t know him from Adam. 

On a fundamental level, he seems to get how entirely unhelpful his critique would be, and how the only thing he’s succeeding in doing is hurting someone’s feelings for no good reason.

I just think it’s funny how a fourteen-year-old understands that, but somehow, you don’t.

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This is so wholesome

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boop-boop-a-doop

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Really nice stationery that have weird words written on them in calligraphy

i don’t have a brain actually. my head is just filled with lots and lots of dried flowers

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Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

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IF IM NOT A "REAL" TRANS PERSON THEN HOW DID I ENCHANT MY WEAPON WITH DARKMOON MAGIC CHECKMATE DUMBASS

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what if writers did streams like artists did

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I still haven't updated either of my fics. Writer's block has been kicking my ass, but Shoot For Your Dreams should be up soon I hope

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I have a circular scar on me knee from dropping scissors on them.

Hey if you’re ever embarrassed by any scars you have just remember that I have a three inch scar down the length of my forearm from where I scratched myself on a microwave while cleaning

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I like how the presidential candidates are a guy who has vocally stated he doesn’t plan to change anything currently wrong with the country and a guy who has vocally stated he doesn’t plan to change anything currently wrong with the country but he’s a democrat so it’s ok

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no but if you can't explain what end you're hoping for when you ask someone to read or engage ‘critically’ with something you should actually keep your mouth shut

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Bisexuals be like…please bore someone else with your ridiculous questions, we’re tired #ProgressIsPride ______ Jay Jurden, your patience tho 🙏🏾