#writers rant

[nottendo]

writers can write what they want. 👏 writers can create what interests them.👏 writers are not obligated to bend to readers expectations.👏 writers can be selfish and drabble out things that are just for them.👏 let writers have autonomy of their own worlds and works.

[cotteafeline]

Hello yes I am breaking a 3–months–or–something hiatus because a singular video pissed me off

I will go back in time and strangle whoever invented the phrase "show dont tell" I swear it has done nothing but damage on our society

Cause tell me why the hell did I just watch someone complain for 3 minutes that we receive some of the information verbally in TADC??? Holy shit guys characters can talk???? And then... Stuff happens off screen too???? And tell me more Gangle (who clearly has anxiety) sounds like shes exaggerating and being "delusional" about her fears????? Ouuoouughh bad writing bad writing

And when I was 15-16 aka the angriest teen ever I was also nitpicking and making shit up I even wrote a whole master doc on "every single thing wrong with Hazbin Hotel" which was like 30% legit 70% whining. So I know ✨️the feeling✨️ right.

But those are GROWN MF PEOPLE spending their time talking about some "eugh why are we not given this information earlier in the show bleh why did the author not explain how those two became friends grrr why did he just explain that to another character why couldnt the show just show us that instead" GIIIRRLLL GO GET A REAL HOBBY BRUH SIT DOWN TAKE A PEN IN YOUR HAND AND LETS SEE HOW WELL YOU GONNA SHOW THAT 😭😭😭🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 YAŞ OTUZ BEŞ YOLUN YARISI AND YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT SOME SHOWS WRITING ON GODDAMNN TIKTOK LIKE PICK A STRUGGLE LORRDDDD

Besides. Why are you even making content for something you clearly do not enjoy. Do you think life is all sunshine and rainbows so you wanna spend your free time whining around. What are you doing!!!!!! Pick up whatever you can and create porn of your favorite characters like the ancient texts bequeathed!!!!!!!

And like dont get me wrong im not against criticism & I also have a bunch of stuff to say about the media that I love and I get mad at it sometimes too. But in our age of fascism rising all over the world, counting AI art to that, to go on the Internet and deliberately nitpick an indie project??????? I will never understand this

Yeah uh anyway huge hello to the 5 people who might have missed me I'm so back on this hellsite cant wait to post new art and fics <3

[lacrazywriter]

Hey guys, so I'm officially leaving this week on a trip, so I am not going to be writing anything at all (sorry, @lavender-long-stories, I won't be writing anything in the next 6 days, I failed you) but congrats on hitting 1M words, like gurl, you are amazing,

So I'm just gonna come back refreshed, I have bewitching pretty much done. I just need to edit some stuff,ff and I also need to edit the first five chapters because my grammar was horrible and I thought it was OK, so yeah, this is advice. Please triple-check your editing, even if it was perfect five years ago, you're gonna find out later that it's a little bit cringe.

Anyway, when I come back, I'm gonna be teasing a story which I'm planning to fully upload when we are in the colder months because it has the whole vibe of the winter solstice. I'm so excited to read your point of view and what you think of it.

Tiny Truth in Teacups, it's not going to be done this year. The story, as you know, is the only project I'm actively working on. I rewrite, I write, I erase to rewrite and write, and most of all, I just reflect. I haven't started Chapter 13 for the story, but I do have my outline ready. So it's just me coming back, then sitting down and writing for the next two weeks, this chapter, so that it can be posted by November 3. If it's earlier, then, you're welcome. That means I came back so inspired to the point that I am going to write from dawn till dusk.

I know it's a little bit upsetting to some people that I take a while to write and post the story, but I do wanna say that each chapter is 15,000 words or more, and once I achieve it, I am not cannot go down, so once again, I do wanna thank people for their patience and their support.

I cannot wait to be back and read everybody's work because I am so glad to be surrounded by writers whom I used to admire when I was just a reader and a teenager, but also new writers who are killing it...💕

Honestly, some of them are very quiet, some of them don't even get recognition, but I see you. I support you. You know I'm in your comments all the time, making sure that you know that I appreciate your effort, and lastly, take this as a reminder to decompress every once in a while. I am, and therefore do the same, go outside and touch some grass.

Special shout-out to the Scorpio queen @hinata6uchiha. Who is celebrating her birthday? Thanks for posting. Now my plane ride is going to be way more pleasant with your three stories uploaded. Thank you... Enjoy your trip, can't wait to see your TikToks about it ❣️

@kia8088, as always, thank you so much for being amazing, supporting myself and others with your ray of light. You don't know the full circle moment you have given me by enjoying my stories the same way I enjoy yours when you were back in FF. Also, I want to thank you for uploading Apartment 11 because it's also gonna make my plane ride more exciting.

To the readers, I love you. See you soon,

-Em (Aka: LaCrazyWriter)

[night-market-if]

Spoiler Ask

So I'm going to address it all here under the cut because I've gotten a few asks in that are pretty similar and I'm sure I'm going to get more. So I thought instead of answering the same thing over and over, I'd just do a response below. Warning, spoilers for the end of book 1.

Full disclosure. I am sick. We are going through a lot of family things at the moment. My patience is probably thin.

For everyone that says MC is already too forgiving of Milo. Milo has not even come into the story yet. You've only observed memories of him. If you feel like you need an inner dialogue to tell you how angry you are over this "betrayal" or "death", I don't know what to say here. Because MC is literally just observing things at the moment. Any options that have been put forth to comment on Milo and what has happened, have been more to lay ground work and to also give a scope of the type of emotions that will be offered in the game. But literally, Milo has not even shown up yet into the story in a real capacity. So please stop sending me asks about how you are upset that MC has "forgiven" him because there has literally been no real interaction between Milo and the MC.

As for this betrayal and death thing. I am going to state this now for those who aren't going to like where my story is going so you don't need to read if you don't want to. As the Night Market, you knew you were going to die. You gladly came down and wanted to experience death. You looked at what Milo (a non magic user) was doing, and said "hey, this would be a cool experience" and then you came down here. So, yes, you are going to feel the full range of emotions that come with it. But you are also going to need to take some personal accountability for your actions. That is what is going to be explored in this book. An entity that didn't realize what emotion actually meant, came down thinking it wasn't going to be a big deal to die, and it turned out it was a big deal. A big fucking deal, in fact and that by doing so, they actually hurt people they loved. So, don't forgive Milo. I'm not forcing anyone to. But, I will not be writing an MC that puts all the blame on him. Because guess what? The Night Market would have died if he didn't do what he did. So, everyone also saying that he killed the MC? No, he literally saved the MC and billions of people. And I don't care what way you spin it? One person is never worth a billion souls. And with the MC being someone that literally cut themselves open over and over again to save most of the people living within the world, I would think they would probably not be too keen on Milo sacrificing them so they could die together in some bullshit Romeo and Juliet act.

Now, I am all for exploring how an MC comes to terms with the feeling of betrayal along with the feeling of needing to take responsibility. I am all for exploring an MC that goes "holy shit this emotion thing is way bigger than I thought and I'm angry and confused". I'm there for it. I'm excited to write it. But, I will not be writing a willfully ignorant MC that doesn't take into account that they did this to themselves as well. And yes, if you choose to not acknowledge it in game, others are going to acknowledge it for you. If you want to not read because you can't become a villain, rock back and forth in a corner and weep, or violently get mad at someone who saved the world? That's cool. I'm not offended by someone not reading it. Anyone coming into my ask box and saying "I just am not going to read now because you aren't doing xyz" I wish you a good night and hope you find something else for you because there are thousands of stories out there.

I am not interested. Nor will I ever be interested. In writing a story where I add to the plague of ignorance that is this world. Aren't we kind of all struggling enough with that in our own lives? MC is a being of compassion. They will always be a being of compassion. That is going to shift and change based on circumstances and there are going to be moments where that compassion can fall into question. When it comes to Milo, it is going to be a messy bit of confusing emotions because there is so much more than just the black and white strokes of "OMG he killed me" that seemed to be the rhetoric on here. Now, you don't want his character around? Alright. Other than when you have to see him for Gatekeeper purposes, you probably won't.

To all of you guys complaining or sending me ask after ask stating how you don't like what I am doing. I am going to tell you this and it will not ever change. If you don't like reading this, then don't read. I am not here to write a story for you specifically. You don't like the direction of a work and can't ever broaden your scope of fiction to give it a shot? Then please don't. But to have this kind of messages coming through when literally we are a chapter in? Seriously. The instant gratification is bullshit. I'm going to suspect this is coming from the younger half of my audience who is way too accustomed to a confirmation bias internet algorithm and who has had a very small scope of real life. This is of course not all of the younger crowd but it's starting to seem like a pretty good amount.

I love having conversations with everyone. My discord is always open but most of you anons hide because you are far too scared to come at me with your user name or engage in a conversation feed where more than just me can answer. I mean, you guys send me asks, citing others user names, to call them out through me. It's laughable at this point.

I love having discourse with all of you but I'm not going to keep answering the same thing over and over again and justifying my work when it doesn't need to be justified. This is a small little bit of fiction in a vast sea.

If I sound pissed, it's because I am at this point. And I'm sure I'll get more asks in that are stating they are jumping ship or that they are disappointed in me or what not. I'll delete them and move on with my evening.

To all of you who are here for the ride and just want to experience what I'm writing? Thank you. Fiction is just meant to be a form of entertainment. I am not writing anything profound. To anyone that is looking for something more, move on. I'll see everyone who wants to get mad or saying I'm too harsh, in my inbox, I am sure. Thank god you can block anons.

[writerswho]

If a person shits themselves when they die, every zombie is technically shitting themselves. 

The reason zombies are so slow is that their pants are full of shit, and that makes them walk slowly because it's hard to run with all the extra weight of the shit.

In a post-apocalyptic scenario with zombies, the main threat wouldn't even be the zombies, but the return of the Plague. 

Thanks to the voices in my head, rats are the second most populated species on the planet. They are found on every continent except Antarctica — that we know of. Then you have the zombies, which are dead, rotting flesh mixed in with all the poo, and zombies aren't just humans, so we have lots of different types of bacteria and dead bugs and incredibly unhealthy ways of existing. Streets full of carrion, sick animals on top of animals without diseases. Rats from one side to the other, spreading everything, everywhere. 

Everyone is always so focused on the heroic struggle for survival in post-apocalyptic scenarios that we just forget that the rats can destroy the planet in two weeks if no one is watching.

[kitcat992]

*me, thinking I'm making progress in finally finishing a half-decade long series, only to realize I'm barely a quarter way to the end*

Where we are vs where we have left to go...I'll be so mournful the day I finish this saga, but at the same time, wow do I want to strangle it some days.

[recreationalfanfics]

So I got this comment under one of my works:

And it was basically for a request where an anon wanted me to write a reader/self insert whose beauty exceeded Aprhodite's.

I know that all Diety Worshippers/ people who work with dieties aren't like this and I also don't have much knowledge on this concept. HOWEVER; if you engage in something like this, I'm of the mindset that you're typically doing it for YOURSELF. You're doing it for your own health/mental wellbeing, you work/worship with a certain diety because they resonate with you, your dieties energy and influences impact YOU. Much like how Christians shouldn't enforce their beliefs, you shouldn't go midrant on a RoR x Reader post about how "You can never be as pretty as Aprhodite😡😡😡" even though the reader in this scenario IS LITERALLY A GODDESS AS WELL.

Second of all, Aprhodite isn't THE goddess of beauty and love. She is A goddess of beauty and love. You can't exclude other mythologies and pantheons like Hathor and Oshun and etc.

And I am genuinely sorry to any RoR creators who have had to deal with this or comments like this. If this is ignorant or out of line in anyway, let me know or message me about it but, like, this is how I personally feel when someone decides to try and guilt my readers for wanting to read a funny little scenario.