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aureutr

Unfriendly reminder that if you're displeased with a piece of fanfiction your courses of action are:

Read something else

Bitch PRIVATELY to friends

Write your own take on the premise (strongly recommend!)

All of the above

Under no circumstances should you try to "politely" critique the author who put the story up as a hobby. For free. Especially if the story in question is multiple years old. Ao3 is not Goodreads

narrative-driven-off-a-cliff

I disagree, totally agree with the multiple years old thing but constructive criticism is okay and good! When you improve on things it makes you write things that make you feel better!

authortobenamedlater

No.

Once a story is finished, criticism cannot be constructive because the story is no longer under construction. Concrit on a published work is just criticism, which is rude.

Concrit is only OK if the author explicitly asks for it or if you are beta reading. Otherwise, refer to the OP.

narrative-driven-off-a-cliff

I get that not everyone wants concrit for hobby works, but what about writers who want advice for future works? Especially with how barren the fanfic comment scene is right now, dissuading people from interacting does more harm than good

jinxremoving

like and/or reblog this post if you are a busted broad, if you have ever pirated a DVD, or if you listen to american rock band my chemical romance

no one will know which

writingdose

protect em dashes.

protect “not x, not y, but z” format.

protect short sentence stacking as a stylistic choice.

protect fanfic writers—who are kind enough to share their works with people to read for free—from ai witch hunts, speculations and accusations.

“don’t like don’t read” also applies to any fic that is ai-generated and any fic you think is ai-generated by the way. if you don’t like what you’re reading for any reason, you can always stop reading and exit the fic at any point. but harassment is never ever justified. no matter if you think you’ve found a noble excuse to do it. and also…

witch hunts, speculations and accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does. if not more. I don’t want to see another innocent writer get driven away from the community because someone decides to harass and accuse them for using ai just because their fic happens to have “ai telltales” — the same telltales ai got from having been trained on millions of human-made works to mimic how real humans actually write.

aureutr

Unfriendly reminder that if you're displeased with a piece of fanfiction your courses of action are:

Read something else

Bitch PRIVATELY to friends

Write your own take on the premise (strongly recommend!)

All of the above

Under no circumstances should you try to "politely" critique the author who put the story up as a hobby. For free. Especially if the story in question is multiple years old. Ao3 is not Goodreads

narrative-driven-off-a-cliff

I disagree, totally agree with the multiple years old thing but constructive criticism is okay and good! When you improve on things it makes you write things that make you feel better!

dogpuppy

geeses

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

daysleftofsecondterm

diminishing each other’s horrors on 901 days left

dogpuppy

narrative-driven-off-a-cliff

This was made in 2026. Btw

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

as humiliating as it is to repost myself from a light-mode-user's reddit screenshot, i cannot allow this year's zenquish to go uncelebrated.

celebrate my favorite holiday with me, my friends.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

if the emperors of rome can add extra months that actually fuck the calendar up i'm allowed to add a new month that lasts 0.0000 picoseconds

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

the last holiday that hasn't been commercialized

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

i made this up when i was a little kid and nothing would make me happier than to see people celebrating it for years to come

somethingusefulfromflorida

Happy Zenquish Eve!

somethingusefulfromflorida

Another Zenquish come and gone... Shame it only happens once a year.

your-dewey-decimal-number-is

394.263

holidays of june, july, zenquish, and august

dragon-in-a-fez

actually I think you should be normal about ordinary citizens of authoritarian countries and yes that applies even to that country you're thinking of right now

creekfiend

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think

toomanydesign

someone needs to make Destin meme about markiplier beating fnaf 2

#Destiel meme #markiplier #Fnaf 2 #Five nights at Freddy’s two

galileosballs

Also, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.

I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom.

The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do.

This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that.

And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum.