[sniffs air] ah shit who burnt their dread

Lee || they/them, ey/em || AO3 is RageCandyBar || Mainly posting about Final Fantasy XV at the moment (if you couldn't tell)

[my-dailydreams]

[tracle0]

If you see this post, back up your writing

[kriosv]

[canidykes]

the big man is the masculine dom and the dom is the top and the little man is effeminate and transgender but fully passes as a cis man and has top surgery but since he doesnt have bottom surgery he literally has to be a bottom theres no way for someone with a vagina to top and the bottom is the sub and they are both uncomplicatedly homosexual with zero positive emotions for women and they both have adhd and autism but only the kind of autism that doesnt actually disable you and they also crossdress but in a specifically humiliating way (why would a MAN wear a DRESS??? 🤪🤪 etc.) and they live together in a big house that they can both effortlessly afford and they're married and have 2 kids a dog and a cat (because Big man is dog coded and Little man is cat coded) and neither of them have jobs or lasting damage from canon events they've been through or physical disabilities or PTSD that I cant turn into Angsty Ship Content and the sun has a big smiley face and birds are just V shapes on the paper it doesnt have to be more complicated than that you dont have to flesh them out. you dont have to. and if you think about it wouldn't it just be soooo much effort to draw a whole bird?? youre just having fun its mean to ask you for detail. and my teacher lives at the school and the bus driver lives in the bus and everything is exactly the same :)

[shitpostingkats]

HEARTBREAKING NEWS: Extremely complex and convoluted polyship headcanon is a vision shared exclusively by you and like, two mutuals.

[ragecndybars]

i open the fandom tag

i see someone reposted art of a romantic moment between the canon het couple with a caption bitching that they "don't wanna see these two together" and asking artists in the fandom to redraw the woman as the male character who the male mc is shipped with most often

i close the fandom tag

[p5x-theories]

In other news, a leaker allegedly shared a lot of information on Twitter last night, though they've since gone back and deleted most of the images they shared, which makes it trickier to verify things.

I believe it's always important to stay at least a bit skeptical of leaks, especially big ones with this much information! That said, part of their claims pertain to P5X, so I'm sharing that part here:

Supposedly, Hatsune Miku (as she appeared in P4D) is an upcoming anniversary unit, and they shared these two images as proof:

As always, because this is a leak, I cannot confirm these images are real! I'm sharing them because I can't confirm they're fake, either, so this qualifies as news worth sharing, haha.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[molabuddy]

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

[elorein]

[mvshortcut]

I love Milligan so much like his agenda upon waking up with no memories was 1. bold faced easily disprovable lie 2. tell curtain his breath stinks 3. jump off a cliff

[persona-game-info]

New P5X [Global] x Persona 3 Reload collab teaser Yukari Unit teaser

[ao3commentoftheday]

Fandom old here, been in fandom since I was 13 and I'm not in my early thirties. In regards to the Beta and Writer conversation I have been seeing on your dashboard as of late, I wanted to say that Fanfiction.Net actually had the ingenious idea a long time ago to make a list of beta readers. What you did was you filled out a beta-editor profile and your fandoms that you were willing to do. They still have it up. The issue is that Archive of Our Own Does *not* have this. There's no official list of active beta readers or what fandoms they will do publically. Instead, most beta readers that I have found are in fandom discord servers. Tumblr doesn't give enough traction to do a beta reader call because everyone posts and can get lost in the feed. That helps no one, not the writer and certainly not the beta whose looking for someone to help. The other issue that I am seeing is that there was a unspoken yet quite loud rule that betas were people who wished to be editors one day and just like many of us on fanfiction were hoping to become writers or were going to go into English Degrees, understood that we had to practice for our own rejection. So basically, rejective sensitivity didn't exist for us because the betas were in as much practice as we were. This is their craft as much as writing was ours. Now there were bad betas, don't get me wrong. But you knew a bad beta from a good one. Now, I don't know about everyone else's school. But in my high school we were taught how to give criticism. Art and English teachers used to make us grade each other's art and grade each other's essays long before the teacher ever got a hold of them. We had a rubic to follow in English to help us, and for art...that could get brutal. Big time. You didn't get a I'm afraid. We got "oh god, she's going to hate it and I'm going to be re-writing this again" because English teachers back in my day gave back essays and told you to re-write it. You had four drafts before you could turn in a "final". I don't know how classes are run now, but this is another huge problem that I am seeing. So, how does this work in fandom etiquette today? I don't think anyone really wants a "beta", they want assurance. Every time I see "it's my writing style" I leave because I already know they didn't want me to edit and it wasn't a writing style they just don't know how to break the rules properly. Betas can help you break grammar rules *properly*, because that's their craft. They know the rules therefore they know how to bend them, break them, and make them theirs. Writers, we should know how to do that too, but they know it better. Let them have it. Let them know what really is a writing style because if it's just insecurity, guess what? Here's the tough truth: you either get a beta and you enhance your writing and you learn how to hone your craft to be a better writer or you don't. And the problem is that you can get better if you don't. A beta isn't a have to...but a beta can make you get better faster. You'll be getting better slower especially with lack of engagement on fics on AO3 if you don't. Which is a valid way to go. And a whole other ask/blog entirely. Editors and writers go hand in hand, betas aren't an enemy you fight. People who are afraid of the red pen weren't afraid because of the mistakes they made, it was once more going to the typewriter and figuring out how to make it *better*.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, anon.

[brownian-notions]

I don't presume to know what sort of constructive criticism Anon provides, but I disagree with the general presumption that a thin skin is the only reason for pushing back on or rejecting criticism.

Providing constructive criticism is its own skill, one that being a good writer does not immediately bestow. Good beta readers approach their job with a degree of humility and with the conscious knowledge that their job is to help the writer tell the story they want to tell. If you don't keep this in mind as your goal, it is easy to let your ego as a writer or your preferences as a reader slip in. You try to change the story to one you would want to tell or one you would choose to read for pleasure. Even when done politely and with all good will, this is unhelpful at best and harmful at worst.

It's even worse if manners, much less good will, are absent, and sadly this really happens. I've known of people who view it as their job to "toughen up" the people they critique for. I've heard people say that they view providing any positive feedback as "coddling." I've even seen one person (part of the Fanfiction.Net beta community) go so far as to say their goal was to reduce the number of "bad" stories on the site, and it was quite clear that they viewed demoralizing someone to the point that they deleted their account an acceptable way of achieving this goal.

So, yes, if you are going to seek out constructive criticism (and you have no obligation to do so), you do need to develop the skill to receive feedback without becoming defensive. But that doesn't mean that all the feedback you receive will be good. You deserve a beta reader that prioritizes your goals as a storyteller.

[ageblue-aka-varnah-g]

I imagine some trans person or enby changing their name like.

-> Goes to Wiktionary.org -> Clicks "Random entry" -> My name is now ጭምብል

[jan-silan]

click on this link and find your new name

i got:

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[bruzum]

[5unm0th]

[raingardening]

i think there is a phenomenon where sometimes a trans person will go “hmm. i am treated as a man when it is convenient for others, and a woman when it is convenient for others, and often as a freakish third thing excluded from the advantages of both. surely, because of the gender binary, the Other Type of trans person experiences the opposite: they reap the benefits of maleness and femaleness at once.” like babes no they can do it twice

[sqbr]

This applies to a bunch of other subgroups of the queer community too. Asexuals are made to feel like freaks for not being sexual enough by the same society that makes everyone else feel like freaks for being too sexual. Lesbians feel pressured to be bi even while bi women feel like they'd be more accepted if they were lesbian. Butches, femmes, and wlw who are neither are all made to feel like they're doing it wrong. PLUS unique facets of shittiness for every shade of non binary PLUS different attitudes towards mlm and wlw PLUS divisions within mlm spaces etc etc etc. And these frictions and differing needs and experiences are absolutely worth discussing, but every time we decide the problem is just that Those Other Queers have it easy we are making the actual problem worse.

[grison-in-space]

Hilariously, it also happens within the asexual community as a function of even smaller identity microcosms; I grew up watching waves of this crash back and forth on AVEN back in the day.

Babes. They can always do it twice.