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reposting these cuz why not

throughout my whole 10+ years of being a diehard MMSF fan ive NEVER drawn solo before😭😭😭LIKE AT ALL this is the first ever time ive drawn him ahahaha bonk

Gorgeous Omega-xis , i had to draw him

Op is being a fucking asshole for no good reason and is butthurt at pushback.

I can say it in a way that isn’t completely intentionally hurtful to novice writers or people who write character first.

Writing stories with cohesive plot is a whole different wheelhouse from oc creation and character lore development, so it’s going to be tough to nail the storytelling you’re used to seeing from authors you admire.

If you’re going to turn your beloved OC into a story, try and think of a plot as robust as your character before you commit to writing if you want it to come out cohesive. Other folks aren’t going to know your OC or their lore as well as you, and taking that for granted is tough to get over! I would try and think of the timeline of your OC’s story in a way that may overlap with pacing similar to works you’ve enjoyed before. Or look for stories that are similar to what you’re trying to do and learn from them!

"Writing a cohesive plot is a different wheelhouse from OC creation" yeah exactly. She's not shitting on your doll-playhouse funtimes, you can still go ahead and do that, just be self-aware you're playing with dolls. If you want to start writing meaningful stories, you have to know what makes a story a story before writing it because even that basic requirement is needed to improve on writing. OP isn't saying bad art shouldn't exist, she's saying if you want to move from making bad art indefinitely and actually start improving, you need to lock in. Like how you can't improve on colouring if you aren't even willing to engage in colour theory. If you want to keep making and enjoy making bad art, go ahead no ones stopping you! That's awesome! Just don't 1. Expect others you end up sharing it with to enjoy it, and get offended when they don't and are honest with you 2. Try to posit your work as up there to honest-to-god decent writing. For me personally at least, OP's post and my reblog comes from a place of frustration towards no. 2. A lot of people, especially in fandom spaces, treat their OC writings with so much gravitas that they proudly proclaim their "fixit fics" and "AUs" as good art, instead of just fun playhouse times. And that culture bleeds into mainstream writing as the biggest fandom personalities who are now 30-40 year olds get their bad writings published, because publishers look at follower counts and fans of said writers will buy anything to "support small artists", give high undeserved praises and the whole thing feeds into itself. People like me genuinely search out good writing get recommended their works, then get disappointed and in many cases have wasted our money. Which makes us sometimes internally blacklist certain "keywords" these writers often use for advertising their works, which unfortunately leads us to miss out on possible genuine gems out there because of a few bad apples with huge followings on whatever social media platform.

"How does this lead to someone being racist??" Hey so I did say 'if you embody the average fandom Tumblr user' and that's context. This is one of those things you'll come to understand later in your writing journey, if you're interested to improve that is. The content surrounding a sentence, might provide more depth towards said sentence. What I personally meant by this, was in reference to how extremely white and USAmerican centric Tumblr fandom is, how a lot of them genuinely ignore the realities of the Global South or even the minorities within their own communities, and end up writing "progressive" stories that are utterly racist and offensive if you actually view people outside of your own community as people too. Another thing that comes to mind, are those reblogs and reactions from Tumblr users in reaction to a post about acknowledging climates and foodstuffs in the Global South in your writings. It was just genuine writing advice for interesting worldbuilding, especially if you're trying to make a world comprising of multiple polities and biomes, and the reaction to it was horrid and incredibly racist. But it's okay because they were all couched in "progressive" language and said by blogs who are "strong allies" of minorities. Hence why I also said tone deaf. Because being racist is one thing, but being racist while genuinely thinking you're a civil rights activist is another.

"It's only worth making things that are good?" No one said that. OP specifically is just giving advice on what to do if you want to learn and end up make things that are good. Idk, but wouldn't you want to improve as an artist? Isn't that inherent in art itself? The want to learn? To improve? What's with all the reblogs proudly announcing they like just making bad art and people should stop criticizing them for it???? Like yeah you can keep making bad art if that gives you enjoyment, but like, you don't feel even a tiny bit the urge to explore? To learn? To aspire??? Ig the world is a very colourful tapestry, and my view is just a bias caused by me and surrounding myself with friends who love working and improving on our art and hobbies, and there's definitely just people out there who are incurious, and are content with that. And I'll concede that I should be fine with that. Just don't go expecting people other than yourself to give you any praise on your works, and please for the love of god don't share your political opinions or think you have anything meaningful to say on public policy, especially if you're self-aware and content with being incurious and unwilling to explore out of your comfort zone. If you're incurious regarding art and feel the need to get defensive over mundane albeit roughly worded writing advice, I can't imagine the levels of your incuriousities regarding more complicated topics.

"Oh if no one will say it, I'll say it: OP is an asshole" yeah so a lot of people have already said that before you. Not exactly original. Don't know why you felt the need to say it like you're making a profound observation. Maybe read the notes before putting so much self-importance on yourself.

Not me writing the most fucked up, degrading, soul-wrenching, heart-breaking, existential conflict rending trauma onto my blorbos and just...letting it stay that way. Not trying to fix some of it. Not giving it at least a hopeful slant in the end???

Letting things stay broken and terrible and sad? I'm shaking and crying right now just thinking about doing that.

Like they have a stable of terrifying potent mutations that they pushed the limits of blah blah blah blah blah, but those things tend to be suffering horribly, have poor longevity, are disobedient, destructive, and seldom represent the actual capability of what they're actually representing.

Everybody knows that one spiderman comic panel that became a meme of "I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs" but the real irony is that guy's actually one of the more successful villainous mad scientist guys. That guy knows what he wants and is taking meaningful steps to accomplish and refine his model of it (turning people into dinosaurs).

Generally speaking one smart guy who is unwilling to talk to anybody else is invariably being his dumbest self. Even if he's the guy that already knows the most, the most successful way to know more is to teach, share, and connect.

Hoarding knowledge is basically the same as hoarding money. Both of these are things whose value actually diminishes the more of it someone just sits on. Cycling it through a mutualistic system that enriches everybody inside of it isn't just the "nice thing to do" it's actually the smart thing to do. Information, wealth, resources, are generative.

And I get in the case of evil mad scientist guys the point is they're wrong but I feel like way too many works that are very clear that guy's evil and wrong fall short of pointing out they're also bad at being a scientist. FF7's Hojo is one of the most famous evil scientist characters and he's also so violently anti-intellectual that it's a wonder he can find his own butt honestly. That guy isn't curing cancer OR turning people into dinosaurs, he's the world's most overpaid schoolyard bully.

Even his malicious exploitation of Lucretia raises the very plausible question of how many monsters in his personal horror show lab are even actually his work. It's debatable this man actually does any science since we know he's a plagiarist prone to assassinating his competition. And he's hardly the only example of this trope. Resident Evil's Umbrella Inc is overtly a clownshow full of petty infighting, ego problems, cult indoctrination and "we put the zombie serum into the plant. oh no the plant killed us. who could have seen this coming. at least our trustworthy friend doctor Antisocial And Obsessed With Leeches will- oh my god."