Lately I’ve been getting most of my pep talks from Mister Rogers.
Great. Now I’m disappointing Mr. Rogers.
Mr. Rogers is not disappointed in you. He’s proud of you for listening and thinking about what he said, and he hopes it plants a seed where sometimes maybe you notice yourself making an unhealthy choice and recognize it, because that’s the first step towards growth towards your best and healthiest self, which is a journey and a process, not an ideal state of which you are falling short.
*writes a book where every character is a thinly veiled humanstuck*
this isnt a funnypost im actually writing a novel! its called “victoria maribeaux is an oxymoron” and its about the mysterious disappearance of vriska-allegory victoria maribeaux and the subsequent questioning of twelve people she knew, told in the style of police interview transcripts. the challenge is “how homestuck can i make it before getting arrested for plagiarism”
twelve people questioned, listed by degrees of separation:
-ariana maribeaux, age 20 (victoria’s sister)
-theresa “tess” pinkman, age 16 (victoria’s girlfriend)
-jonathan ramstadt, age 17 (victoria’s ex-boyfriend)
-roxanne “roxy” la salle, age 17 (victoria’s neighbor)
-carter van harriston, age 15 (victoria’s biology partner)
-reneé merriam, age 18 (victoria’s AP us history tutor)
-nellie lee-jones, age 15 (the game master of victoria’s dungeons and dragons group)
-mina nedjem, age 19 (victoria’s fellow swim team member)
-travis nordstrom, age 16 (sits two seats away from victoria in american literature)
-ava fellisman, age 16 (got into a car accident with victoria in sophomore year)
-alex mcClaire, age 18 (got paid 25$ by victoria to jailbreak her iphone in the eighth grade)
contrary to appearances victoria maribeaux is NOT the focus of this story. the focus is the task of the policewoman that interviews them (jane crandall) to make sure all their stories of the week leading up to victoria’s disappearance match up
for everybody curious about how i disguised the names:
funny how when i started on being trans my end goal was post-serum captain america but a year and a half in i just wanna be mr rogers. gimme a comfy sweater and some cute magical friends to be nice to. that’s enough. today i saw a bat and made brownies. i used to think that righteousness was about violence and anger and now i think i’m finally done with that. righteousness can just be keeping a good home and finding things to laugh about and being kind even when the world is falling apart all around you. that’s good enough.
The funny thing is I think maybe righteousness is both of those? It’s as much warm homes with people you love and the small gestures that reach to your core as it is spitefully standing up because you refuse to sit down while shit happens. Maybe one builds the other builds the other…… Yeah, that seems right.
Also what if both? Can I be Captain America’s and Mr Rogers illicit love child? Soft muscle and sweaters?
I’m starting the ‘genuine setheverman appreciation club’ because yea I know hes a meme but I think hes genuinely funny and a legitimately cool dude, reblog to join the club
“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!
To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist, to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get a past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism which, while many don’t bother to give, I would provide without hesitation.
Some say “I don’t need approval.”(which I sincerely don’t believe). Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?
And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone, face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.
So, what makes you different?
“English isn’t my first language” is not a serious excuse!
To all of you fanfic authors, bloggers, artist[s:] to write/make something and then post it means that you are satisfied with the product. Now, to have created a piece that is fully/mostly constructed of text and to not have made the effort to at least get a grammar check is called arrogance. [Replacing “to have” and “to not have” with “having” and “not having” would make this much easier to read.] “I don’t care what you think, I wrote it, you read it. Who cares if you’re struggling to get [remove superfluous “a”] past every sentence. That’s your own problem!” You’re basically setting yourself up for negative feedback and criticism[,] which, while many don’t bother to give, [That’s one hell of an awkward construction; consider “while many don’t bother with it” instead.] I would provide without hesitation. [In fact, the best solution would be to put the subclause starting with “which” at the end of the sentence. Otherwise it’s just clunky.][space]Some say[:] “I don’t need approval.”[space]([W]hich I sincerely don’t believe.)[remove incorrectly placed full stop] Well, then, why are you posting this? Isn’t the whole point sharing something you can enjoy with people?[space]And then you start getting defensive and angry about it. “Well, English isn’t my first language!” I don’t care! Nobody does! Plus, if you post something online you should anticipate criticism. Great artists, celebrities, and basically everyone[remove superfluous comma] face criticism on a daily basis EVEN WHEN the final product is marvelous.
Oh man, that’s already a magnificent takedown, but this clown just made me really mad.
English is fucking hard. Your spelling is arbitrary, your tenses don’t make sense, and what the fuck is going on with your prepositions anyway? But you still expect everyone to be perfect at it because it’s a ~global language~ or whatever. Spoiler alert, that’s stupid, you’re just entitled.
When I started out writing in English, I was shit. I can exactly map my skill level from the first time I published on FF.net to when I went to live in England to study writing for three years. Every writer sucks when they start. That’s just a fact. But non-native speakers writing in English are doing the whole thing with both hands tied behind their back, they’re struggling to come up with a way to say what they mean in a language they don’t know that well yet, they’ve got seven different dictionaries open in their browser. They’re frantically checking that they’re using the right names because they read Harry Potter in their own language when they were little and even though they’ve read the original now they’re still calling Rita Skeeter ‘Kimmkorn’ in their head. It’s a goshdarn STRUGGLE.
There’s that horrifying bit just after you start writing in another language where the words don’t work in your own anymore but your English skills haven’t really caught up yet and nothing you’re getting out on the page can do justice to what it felt like in your head. It’s a terrible, awful feeling that you’re not good enough at this and you can’t switch back somehow and you’re stuck in the middle producing stuff that you hate because it’s not right. It’s discouraging as fuck, but so many people stick with writing anyway, because they (we) can’t help it! There’s too many stories to tell, even if right now it feels like they’re kind of shit.
So who thefuck are you to go around preaching your elitist, prescriptivist bullshit at people who are pouring blood, sweat, and tears into their work and getting nothing in return except maybe the hope that someone somewhere gets a little bit of joy out of it?
When I started out, I put disclaimers on my fanfic that English wasn’t my first language, and people were super nice. They told me I was doing a good job, made suggestions on how I could improve, and corrected my idioms without being dicks about it. Because of that, I was brave enough to go to a different country to write and get a degree and keep writing stories for people to maybe enjoy on their lunch break, for free. Do you think your attitude encourages people to keep going and get better?
These people are putting hours of their work on the Internet, forfree, literally asking for nothing, hoping that someone maybe has a good time reading it. Nobody is forcing you to read it, but Jeez, shut the fuck up about other people’s ability to write in a second language when you clearly barely have command of your first.
The phrase “No amount of skill will protect you from the sheer luck of a chronic dumbass” popped into my head and if that aint a Big Mood™ i dunno what is
Dungeons and Dragons: a summary
That reminds me of similar statements I’ve encountered in the past:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
If you succeed in making something idiot-proof, the universe will just make a better idiot.
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