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DO NOT FOLLOW ME OFF THAT POPULAR TEXT POST. If I determine we have no interests in common I WILL BLOCK YOU. | Personal/Reblog account for @Squidbian-ink. They/Them in the streets, he/she if you're nasty. I complain abt my medical issues on this blog pretty often, please be prepared for that.

[iddelirious]

new squidbian fic so fire I had to draw inigo dying in a glue trap to cope

[setzeri]

Video game events of the near future.

[drawloverlala]

Noelle and Marcille 🥰

[werewolf-transgenderism]

basically my favorite thing to do is imagine The Character in some sort of situation of terrible emotional turmoil. it’s like enrichment for me

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

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[meteor-sword]

i might elaborate later but fanfic replies literally develop writer’s metacognition and make them better writers

[meteor-sword]

so, Metacognition is the practice of thinking about thinking or identifying one’s cognitive process . in essence, metacognition is understanding how you prepare for academic challenges, exams, or tasks, and then being able to reflect on whether you did well, you prepared adequately, and what was most effective. in a writing setting, this type of self-awareness helps you transfer skills in writing, say, fanfiction into writing academically, competitively and professionally. 

here’s an article from brown university on the subject i’ll discuss further. there are 3 parts of practicing metacognition identified in this article: planning, monitoring, and evaluation. how might this look like for a fanfic writer? 

planning: asking oneself ‘what is my goal?’ ‘what strategies should i use to meet that goal?’ ‘how much time/length do i need to meet my goal?’. so maybe my goal is to write a meet cute where two characters kiss. i’ll need to use a perspective, an upbeat tone, and forward characterization to do this. it’ll probably take 5000 words and two days to write. 

monitoring: asking oneself: is my story making sense? am i reaching my goal, or do i need to summarize more succinctly to keep it to 5k? maybe you started with a lot of exposition and now you’re 6k in and the characters haven’t met yet. what went wrong/changed? is it ok that it changed or did you not realize it got away from you? what now? 

evaluation: asking oneself: did i reach my goal? was it effective? what would i change next time? 

this is where comments come in

it is incredibly difficult to evaluate yourself. comments like “i love this!” actually do begin to touch on the evaluation step of metacognition. it means, in general, the writer is on the right track. comments like “i loved the dialogue between x and y” or “the emotions of this section really hit me” begin to answer the questions of was it effective, did i reach my goal and conversely answer what would i change next time (by adding more of whatever was specified as working well). HYPER SPECIFIC comments, like analyzing the story between the lines or pasting in a line that you really liked and explaining why, is like jet fuel for the metacognition process and i’m not exaggerating. specifically pointing out what was effective and why is incredibly useful 

i can straight up credit my writing style to all of my friends and readers who have given incredibly detailed comments. when i found a community who gave feedback like that, my writing improved a thousand times faster than before. so! i guess what i’m saying is give feedback! it goes so much further than you realize!

[mikkeneko]

This is exactly the post I was thinking about when I wrote that recent post about how fanfic authors develop as authors by adapting to what they perceive as successful with their audience -- based on positive feedback.

Feedback absolutely does not need to be "critical" to help an author improve, and anyone who insists that fanfic authors need negative feedback or they'll never grow is. Well. To start with, incorrect.

[itssquidbian]

THERES NOTHING WRONG OR STRANGE ABT WANTING CUSTOM GENITALS. ITS UR BOD AND THE BEST GENITALS FOR U R THE ONES THAT FEEL RIGHT, WHETHER THATS 'NORMAL' (based in binary m/f sex) OR NOT!!!!

YOU ARE NOT EVIL OR A PERVERT OR 'INVALIDATING OTHERS' FOR SIMPLY WANTING WHATS FEELS RIGHT FOR UR SPECIFIC BOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[itssquidbian]

im friends w exactly 1 straight woman and she's an angel so reading the comments on lrb is like. im learning but i wish i wasnt. yall gotta deal with some bullshit for real.........

[aminta]

your straight boyfriend is not FRUITY he is not a TWINK he is not GAY FOR THE STRAP he is a 25 year old heterosexual man named TYLER and his favorite hobby is playing MARVEL RIVALS

[valtsv]

i bet using your body as a human shield feels kind of good before it really doesn't

[actualized-animal]

it’s fine if it’s not perfect. it’s fine if it’s not perfect. it’s fine if it’s not perfect. [visibly shaking, dark bags under bloodshot eyes, enveloped by an evil aura,]

[icanglowinthedark]

[itssquidbian]

my fave part of living in suburban australia is a game i like to call Is that the sound of children playing outside or is it Birds. genuinely indistinguishable sometimes

[em1e]

what made u guys pick ur url's !

[itssquidbian]

three houses more like 3 philanderer archetypes. one in each house. hey why did they do that btw

[weepingwidar]

Megan Hales (Australian, 1989) - Cabin Fever (2023)

[etiennelux]

reading a negative review of something you love written by a person who very clearly didn’t understand it at all