#animercom

Even if you are writing for fun, how are you going to improve your writing if you delete feedback?

I mean, I assume you’re just trying to bait me, but sure, let’s play, hahaha. This assumes that a) improving is a goal for me (spoiler alert: it’s not.) b) that “writing for fun” still somehow means “trying to meet someone else’s expectations” (second spoiler alert: it doesn’t have to, if that’s not fun for you) and c) that some rando on the internet telling you that you wrote the characters wrong cause it’s not how they would have done it is inherently valuable because it’s “feedback” (spoiler alert: please stop). 

Actual constructive criticism relies on trust as a foundation. The primary part of that is the trust that the person providing the criticism has a shared goal of bringing the artist’s piece closer to the artist’s goal not the criticizer’s goal. You can’t do that if you don’t know the artist’s goal. To know my goal, you’d have to ask me. Shockingly, no one who’s ever left a critical comment on one of my stories has asked me what my goal was with the piece. Why is there an assumption that if you’re making and sharing creations, you must be trying to get better? Like, I don’t go to karaoke and assume everyone up on stage is there trying to win America’s Idol. Probably, the bachelorette party is just wanting to have a good time with their friends, and they’re too drunk to care that Becky can’t hit the high C. They certainly don’t need me walking up and telling them that. What they do need is more nachos.

I do not trust people I don’t know to criticize with my goal in mind. I trust my beta, I trust my friends, I trust the people who were part of the creation process.

I can already tell that @animercom and I have different goals, cause I’m not here to “improve my writing.” If it’s fun for you to have people out in the wild tell you what you did “wrong,” (according to them) by all means, ask for that, keep your critical comments, bathe in all the “feedback.” But don’t put your goals and desires on me. That’s not fun for me. I choose not to make it part of my hobby, that I do in my spare time, for fun. And my message is to other creators to tell them that it’s okay if a) improving isn’t one of your goals b) criticism isn’t fun for you or c) you want to keep criticism contained to the people who you trust to have your goals in mind. 

I’m not going to bother trying to stop people from leaving critical comments. That conversation has been going on for millennia and the message still hasn’t gotten through, so I’m not wasting my breath on that right now. But I do want my fellow creators to not feel guilty for curating their own space and chasing their own joy, regardless of what shape it comes in. You don’t have to “take everyone’s opinion into account.” It’s your art. It’s your opinion. Ignore anyone else’s that you want to ignore. It is okay to just be here to have a good time, dancing around, singing your own way, even if it’s not on beat or on key. Heck, pass the nachos.

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I've heard that according to the art book, Kaito's hair is meant to resemble a quasar

Oh, ooh! This is Important Information that I did not know; thanks for informing me!

I also didn't actually know what a quasar was and immediately had to go and rectify this, because that's what Kaito would want. They happen when a supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy shoots out huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation in opposite directions along the axis of rotation - so, essentially out of the “top” and “bottom” of the galaxy. Quoth Wikipedia, quasars “are among the most luminous, powerful, and energetic objects known in the universe” - which, man, that sure is a thing Kaito would want to be associated with, isn't it. If they're some of the most luminous objects in the universe, that means they're the brightest luminaries out there!

I should also add that... Kaito's hair really only vaguely resembles a quasar. Even if I'd already known what one was, I'd probably never have made this connection without being told. I can kind of see what he's going for with the twin upwards and downwards spiking, but the spikes aren't nearly as long as the jets of energy shown in artists' depictions of quasars. (Oh god, though, let's not encourage him to make those spikes longer.) Plus, most of said artistic renditions also show the rest of the galaxy spiralling horizontally around the quasar, and Kaito's hair doesn't do that part. (Which is probably a good thing.)

Tl;dr: From the bottom of my heart.. thank you, really.  I’m a mess of a human so  ramblings under the cut

It is always surprising when people aren’t aware that I run this blog… I have it in my description…

I guess I do try to take on a more professional tone on this blog, since it is about analyzing and theorizing. That seems to throw people off, perhaps?

I will admit, I’m not sure what it means when you say “it’s no wonder,” when it comes to the fact I am ImpyTricky as well, or a creator of Twins AU, but I digress.

It’s all a matter of interpretation, and I personally think that Kokichi is a person who wants to make sure people don’t suffer. Mercy killing the class would spare them the same kind of suffering he faced in seeing the despair of the secret of the outside world. Though, I won’t go too far into details regarding Twins AU since this blog isn’t about that, but it is my personal interpretation, and one that L (the other creator of Twins AU) also agrees with. I will at least say that I hope the way Twins AU is written, it makes more sense in the context of the AU.

Hey!! Thank you so much for taking the time to write this!!! 😖 I sincerely appreciate the compliments! It’s always super enjoyable to hear what people take away from my artwork or what they notice about it!

I get what you mean. In general, there are very few people who make Oumeno fanwork. Oumeno is not a very popular ship (publicly), so I’m glad about how many people participated and openly reblogged the fanwork during Oumeno Week (2018)!

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I’m actually not too familiar with ultimateask, but hopefully at least some of my followers are!