[ SECRET POST #6693 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6693 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There's a vulnerability that goes into sharing fic (and other creative works) that generally isn't there when just chatting or scrolling or posting online.

So yeah, I do see how authors can spiral into self-loathing and shame if they pour their soul into creating something, share it in good faith with others who love The Thing as much as they do, only to be told it's badly-written/or and OOC... while still being able to function perfectly well in every other corner of the internet.

[(Anonymous)]

*badly-written and/or OOC

[(Anonymous)]

look man (gn) I've been posting fic online since 2005 and people have said some critical things about some of my fics for SURE. But I've never felt the need to flounce over it, nor have I ever descended into a black hole of whiny self loathing because someone left a "this thing could have been better" review for me. Not even when I was a dramatic teenager. If one critical comment makes someone forever flounce and refuse to write fic ever again, that seems like a them problem. I don't leave critical comments on fic myself; if I don't like it, I just don't finish reading it. But being literally incapable of handling even the slightest of comments other than "yas queen" seems kind of babyish to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't responding to the "never write fic again" part, which IMHO read as hyperbole anyway, so much as the "if strangers ripping your creative work to shreds makes you feel shitty about your self-worth, you shouldn't be on the internet" part.

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nayrt
fandom is sanctuary. It's a part of th internet you should be in if you're depressed.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, pretty much this. Not 100% the same but when I was a kid I got a mean critical comment on a drawing of a rarepair I had, if it wasn't someone else encouraging me on the same drawing I probably would've stopped.

Plenty of people are looking for crit, I'm nowadays, it's better to only leave it if asked.