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i want to say that if you are a baby fanfiction writer or a baby writer and you come across one of those long posts whining about "ao3 writing style" and "cliché symbolism" you really don't have to take it seriously. you should open the document and have fun anyway, and by doing so you will be light years ahead of the sad little people on here who spit out incredibly condescending criticisms under the guise of "encouraging people to hone their craft". write the cliché thing! practice! experiment! learn what you like, what you don't like! be self-indulgent! if you're writing fanfiction, then you belong to a community, and community means being influenced and informed by one another. fandom doesn't and cannot happen in a vacuum. and if you're trying your hand at professional writing, then whatever you need to work on is between you and your editor/agent, not between you and a tumblr user who never developed a personality outside their English Literature degree. (and if english isn't your first language then this post is 10x more true for you. the anglosphere isn't self-aware, and you are accommodating enough as it is) kissing you mwah

Eridians dont know about time relativity and people are NOT talking about it enough imagine sending a person on a dangerous mission like 70 years ago and when they finally come back and they look like they only aged 10 of those years and tell you "oh yeah time just works different there" when you have no concept of that that is INSANE rocky explaining radiation to eridian scientists (already insane concept) and going "oh yeah btw time works differently in space" "what" "time works differently in space. what we thought would be a 16 years trip was only a 4 year trip for me, the solarians call it something like time-depending-of-position-in-space, is pretty trippy" "....WHAT"