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⌈ Secret Post #2183 ⌋

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Sorry for late, overslept.

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You can quit the elitism. I have no formal artistic or creative education, and I haven't even done creative writing in school since I was 16, but I would like to think that that doesn't disqualify me from either learning to be a better writer or from being aware of what good writing is. I am not comfortable with this idea that one has to be a member of an elite in order to engage with the words we all write - in fact, I always hope that fandom was a testament against that view.

While I have zero interest in ever writing for a living - seriously, none, that sounds like hell on earth to me - I get a lot of satisfaction out of the gradual improvement of my skills as a writer. You can't really write without noticing that curve, either; things that used to be hard/intimidating become easy. If you care about engaging with fandom at all, improving is one of the things you're caring about because it is happening every moment of every day. It's part of the process and I don't think it should be discounted that casually.

Um...not everyone is you. I write or draw or whatever I feel like doing because it's fun, and I only post it because I think others might have fun looking at it. I don't care about improving. I'm happy with my work the way it is. You don't like it? Tough shit.

I'm not going to go out there assuming that no one is like me, though. Given that inevitable improvement curve, it wouldn't make sense to assume that people who write a lot don't care about improvement.

I would rather assume people are doing it for fun and not piss in their corn flakes. I'm not hurting anybody by keeping my mouth shut, and I don't think my opinion is special enough that they've got to hear it.

So...everyone's work is so special that criticism of it is 'pissing in their cornflakes' and should never happen, but everyone's opinion is so unspecial that not one negative thought should ever be said aloud.

I'm confused now. Are we all special snowflakes, or aren't we?

I never said people's work was "special." I just think random crit is rude, so I don't do it. And I ignore all criticism of my own work because I don't care. You're making things way more complicated than they have to be.