Most people don’t know enough about the process to articulate what is or isn’t working for them in your art, let alone how to fix it. Critique is useful as an indicator that *something* is wrong, but it’s better to figure out what it is yourself than take feedback at face value.
"Can we stop pretending _____ was ever good?"
"Its ok to like ______ even though it's bad."
"I'm not SAYING _____ is bad, I'm saying it has everything in common with bad things."
SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUP YOU ARE ANNOYING
Según las reglas del "power scaling", Po no tenía ninguna oportunidad de vencer a Tai Lung, ya que en la primera película no tenía ninguna hazaña superior a el
Pero al final de la película Po gano, porque la película construyó el escenario, eso es a la que se refería Lee y Kirby
Critique is meant to be constructive and help artists reach their full potential. Nowadays it’s really become more like “I don’t like this media so I’m going to tear it apart and gleefully watch it crash and burn.” There’s an unchecked and open malice to it. It’s disheartening.
because many people’s concept of a “complex morally gray” character is usually just a character with a traumatic past and a sassy attitude that’s often mean to others. not a character who’s bigoted, or toxic, or abusive when they are shown with vulnerabilities or positive traits.
Honestly? I've been suspecting for a long time that people with this mindset come from fairly sheltered, privileged upbringings. They think childhood is all sunshine and rainbows when not everyone had the leisure of a relaxing childhood. Kids shows tackle heavy (1/2)
Yeah but -- little girls around the world don't care about Steve Rogers/Captain America. You know who little girls around the world all recognize and know and love? Sailor Moon.
That's right: Lazy, whiny, immature, flighty, ADHD-addled, C-average Usagi Tsukino.
They all know who Sailor Moon is, and all of Disney's billions couldn't make them care who Captain Marvel is. That's because they can actually relate to the former.
Carol Danvers is a textbook, annoying, girlboss Mary Sue and the entire world knows it.
Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them.
We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken.
And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.
Learn to separate art from the artist, because if you don’t you will ALWAYS find out something about every author/artist you don’t like/disagree with.
Every product you buy, every store you shop from, everything you read, it will all in one way or another contribute or be created by someone you don’t like. You literally cannot function normally in society thinking this way.
Morals are good to have, but if you make them too strict you won’t be able to enjoy anything. It doesn’t make you a bad person to enjoy any of these things.
If you like something, like it. Don’t care about what others think or how you’re perceived, it doesn’t matter. If you don’t you’ll become an insufferable person nobody wants to be around, always judging and shaming others for their interests while trying to virtue signal to everyone that you’re one of the “good ones”.
It’s a very binary, black and white, shallow morality system that simply doesn’t work and it waters humans down from complex nuanced individuals to “the good guys that like the good things” and “the bad guys that like the bad things.”
Couples in healthy relationships also argue, have different opinions, feel frustrated, insecure and bored at times. Healthy doesn't mean perfect. What makes a relationship perfect is HOW you choose to move through those challenges TOGETHER.
hot take: making friends requires the same intentionality we give to (early) dating
we're in a loneliness crisis. we need to remember real friendship takes time and effort.
in school, it was built-in: shared routines, daily run-ins, automatic consistency.
in adulthood: you must create it for yourself.
put yourself out there. show up, even when it's scary. smile at a stranger. ask to connect. ask genuine questions. be curious. put in effort.
the results are worth it people!!!
please be kind. don’t be the reason someone doesn’t want to socialize, hates waking up, or feels left out. your words and actions stick with people forever
in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you're innocent in the story you created.
A terrifying number of people are more invested in the "idea" of a relationship than the actual execution of one. They want the matching outfits, the soft-launch pictures, and the cute anniversary captions. But the exact second the relationship requires actual work,having an uncomfortable conversation, compromising, or dealing with a partner's bad day, they want to tap out. They are casting co-stars for their social media feed, not looking for a life partner.
nobody is a good person at 13-18, stop making docs on each other, none of you have fully developed brains or all the perfect knowledge of handling relationships, just be kids and get off the internet for a few hours if it’s too much. spread love